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About Martin Luther King, Jr.
October 23, 2008
Read a biographical essay on Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared by King Institute director Clayborne Carson and the Institute staff, extensively cross-referenced with links to the
King Online Encyclopedia.
Carmichael, Stokely (1941 - 1998)
Sit-ins
Chapter 14: The Sit-In Movement
July 22, 2008
Bond, Julian (1940- )
Greensboro lunch counters desegregated
King is arrested at Atlanta sit-in
U.S. Supreme Court rules segregation in interstate bus terminal restaurants unconstitutional
Nashville stores desegregate lunch counters
Atlanta city officials agree to integrate lunch counters
Woolworth, Grant, Kress, and McCrory-McClellan integrate lunch counters
San Antonio integrates lunch counters
Reverend Theodore Roosevelt Thompson stages a one-man sit-in in Dallas
CORE launches sit-ins against segregation at University of Chicago campus
Marshall police break up lunch counter sit-in
The Greensboro Four sit at a Woolworth’s lunch counter reserved for white customers
Four students stage sit-in at office of U.S. Attornery General Robert Kennedy
Committee on Appeal for Human Rights holds first sit-in
The Sitdowns - Richmond News Leader
Telegram from A. Philip Randolph
Draft Statement to Judge James E. Webb
The Meaning of the Sit-Ins
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