Greensboro Student Executive Committee for Justice
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The Greensboro Student Executive Committee for Justice was a civil rights student organization that coordinated and led the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at lunch counters in North Carolina.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
activist group
ⓘ
civil rights organization ⓘ student organization ⓘ |
| activity |
boycotts
ⓘ
mass meetings ⓘ picketing ⓘ sit-ins ⓘ |
| aimedAt |
ending segregation in Greensboro lunch counters
ⓘ
securing equal service for Black customers at lunch counters ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus |
public accommodations desegregation
ⓘ
student leadership in civil rights ⓘ |
| foundedFor | support and expand the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960 ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
African American students
ⓘ
Bennett College students ⓘ North Carolina A&T State University students ⓘ college students ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
early phase of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement
ⓘ
post–Brown v. Board of Education era ⓘ |
| ideology |
desegregation
ⓘ
racial equality ⓘ |
| influenced | later student sit-in movements in the United States ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
Greensboro, North Carolina ⓘ North Carolina ⓘ |
| locationOfActivity |
Greensboro lunch counters
ⓘ
F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro ⓘ
surface form:
Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro
|
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
Civil Rights Movement
|
| notableFor |
coordinating the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins
ⓘ
leading protests against segregated lunch counters ⓘ |
| operatedInTime |
1960
ⓘ
1960s ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Jim Crow laws
ⓘ
racial segregation in public accommodations ⓘ |
| partOf | Southern civil rights student activism network ⓘ |
| purpose |
challenge racial segregation at lunch counters
ⓘ
coordinate student civil rights activism ⓘ organize sit-ins ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Greensboro, North Carolina
ⓘ
Piedmont region of North Carolina ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization |
ad hoc coordinating committee
ⓘ
grassroots organization ⓘ |
| usedStrategy |
civil disobedience
ⓘ
nonviolent direct action ⓘ student-led organizing ⓘ |
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