<aside> 💡 to show civil resistance to forms of segregation that remained throughout the south in 1960, sit-ins at restaurants, lunch counters, business and facilities to protest segregation laws were conducted by civil rights organisations.
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This quiet, passive yet subversive form of protest was effective because of the magnitude of participates and pressure it placed on segregated buisnesses. In turn, it aggravated opposition and highlighted aspects of harsh ongoing racism that still existed across the south.
After the Sit-ins, Ella left the SCLC to assist the new student activists because she viewed the young, emerging activists as a valuable asset to the movement. Miss baker organised a meeting at Shaw University for the student leaders of the Sit-ins in April 1960, and from that meeting the Student Non-violent coordinating committee - SNCC - was born.