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What was the purpose of the Greensboro Sit-in?

To protest segregated lunch counters
To protest voting rights discrimination
to protest segregation in schools

To protest segregated lunch counters.

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Did you know that the Greensboro Sit-in was a powerful nonviolent protest against segregated lunch counters? In the early 1960s, four African American college students from North Carolina courageously sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter and demanded to be served, igniting a movement against racial inequality. This peaceful act of civil disobedience, with its participants enduring verbal abuse and physical threats, eventually led to the desegregation of lunch counters throughout the United States. While voting rights discrimination and segregation in schools were also significant issues during this time, the Greensboro Sit-in specifically aimed to challenge and overcome the unjust practice of segregation at lunch counters.