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sitâ²-in`. 1. an organized passive protest against racial segregation in which the demonstrators occupy seats prohibited to them in public places. 2. any organized protest in which the demonstrators occupy and refuse to leave a public place.
While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement. These sit-ins led to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history. The primary event took place at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.