Greensboro

Greensboro Sit-ins

By JamieB123

  • Ella Baker became involved in NAACP

    Ella Baker became involved in NAACP
    Ella joined the NAACP as a secretary in 1940

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    The freedom rides of 1947 inspired the Greensboro four to peacefully protest. The freedom rides were organized by the Congress for Racial Equality.

  • Emmett Till was murdered

    Emmett Till was murdered
    While vising family in Money Mississippi, 14 year old Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. This murder inspired the Greensboro four to become peaceful demonstrators years later

  • Ella Baker helped found SCLC

    Ella Baker helped found SCLC
    Baker helped organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with MLK

  • Clara Luper started the first sit-ins

    Clara Luper started the first sit-ins
    History teacher, Clara Luper began sit in demonstrations in Oklahoma City

  • Baker went to Greensboro to help the student activists and founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Greensboro sit-ins began

    Greensboro sit-ins began
    A group of college students refuse to leave a woolworths lunch counter after being denied service