Unit 4: Black Lives Matter (Tle G1)

 Counter Histories: The Sit-in Movement

The document under study is a video in which several people are interviewed. There are Rev. Ed King, Joan T. Mulholland, Colia Clark who were former activists, veterans of the Civil Rights movement; Bill Minor was a reporter at the time who photographed the event and Daphne Chamberlain, a teacher at the University of Tugaloo.

We have learned that they took part in a sit-in protest movement in the 1960s. They organized one in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963 in Woolworth’s lunch counter. They wanted to end segregation in restaurants and in any public places in general. They were students, white and black working together to change and improve the living conditions of the African-American community.

(We will continue the study of the video next time).

Homework: Learn the lesson.