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A '''sit-in''' or '''sit-down''' is a form of [[direct action]] that involves one or more people occupying an area for a [[protest]], often to promote political, social, or economic change. The protestors gather conspicuously in a space or building, refusing to move unless their demands are met. The often clearly visible demonstrations are intended to spread awareness among the public, or disrupt the goings-on of the protested organization. Lunch counter sit-ins were a [[nonviolent]] form of protest used to oppose segregation during the [[civil rights movement]], and often provoked heckling and violence from those opposed to their message.<ref>"Sit-Ins." The Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute, June 27, 2020, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/sit-ins</ref>

==Tactics==
[[File:Anarchistflagsbritain.jpg|thumb|[[Anarchist]] occupying a street lamp with raised [[Anarchist symbolism|bisected black and red flags]]]]
The tactics of a sit-in is usually to cause peaceful disruption. The strategy for sit in protests was pioneered by [[Mahatma Gandhi]], during the [[Quit India Movement]] and [[Salt March]], which involved peaceful resistance. Ghandi drew from the works of [[Leo Tolstoy]]. Although throughout history sit-ins existed as a form of protest, including prior to the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Sit ins cause the message of a protest movement to be spread, without causing any damage, as such they are a common form of [[civil disobedience]].<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/78549854/Love_as_a_Practice_of_Peace_The_Political_Theologies_of_Tolstoy_Gandhi_and_King|title=Love as a Practice of Peace: The Political Theologies of Tolstoy, Gandhi and King|first=Liane|last=Hartnett|date=July 11, 2020|journal=Theology and World Politics|pages=265|via=www.academia.edu|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-37602-4_11}}</ref>

== Examples ==

=== United States ===

==== Civil rights movement ====
{{Main|Civil rights movement|Sit-in movement}}
The [[Fellowship of Reconciliation]] (FOR) and the [[Congress of Racial Equality]] (CORE) conducted sit-ins as early as the 1940s. Ernest Calloway refers to [[Bernice Fisher]] as "Godmother of the restaurant 'sit-in' technique."<ref>"Of Time and Sound, Requiem For A Free, Compassionate Spirit", by Ernest Galloway, published in ''Missouri Teamster'', May 12, 1966, Page 7.</ref> In August 1939, African-American attorney [[Samuel Wilbert Tucker]] organized the [[Alexandria Library sit-in]] at the then [[Racial segregation in the United States|racially segregated]] library.<ref>{{cite web|title=America's First Sit-Down Strike: The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In|url=http://oha.alexandriava.gov/bhrc/lessons/bh-lesson2_reading2.html|publisher=City of Alexandria|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528015924/http://oha.alexandriava.gov/bhrc/lessons/bh-lesson2_reading2.html|archive-date=May 28, 2010|access-date=August 24, 2016}}</ref> [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) labor delegates had a brief, spontaneous [[lunch counter]] sit-in during their 1947 [[Columbus, Ohio]] convention.<ref>(''NYT'' March 17, 1947: 16)</ref>

In one of the earliest use of sit-ins against racism, followers of [[Father Divine]] and the [[International Peace Mission Movement]] joined with the Cafeteria [[Labor unions in the United States|Workers Union]], Local 302, in September 1939 to protest racially unfair hiring practices at New York's Shack Sandwich Shops, Inc. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'' for September 23, 1939,<ref>{{cite news|title=Divine's Followers Give Aid to Strikers: With Evangelist's Sanction They 'Sit Down' in Restaurant|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 23, 1939|id={{ProQuest|103043251}}}}</ref> on Thursday between 75 and 100 followers showed up at the restaurant at Forty-first Street and [[Lexington Avenue]], where most of the [[Strike action|strike]] activity has been concentrated, and groups went into the place, purchased five-cent cups of coffee, and conducted what might be described as a kind of customers' nickel sit down strike. Other patrons were unable to find seats.<ref>{{cite news |title=Divine's Followers Give Aid to Strikers; With Evangelist's Sanction They 'Sit Down' in Restaurant |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A17FA3B54107A93C1AB1782D85F4D8385F9 |work=The New York Times |location=US |date=September 23, 1939 |access-date=July 20, 2010 }}</ref>

In May 1942, [[James Farmer Jr.]], an organizer for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, led a group of 27 people to protest the racially discriminatory no-service policy of the Jack Spratt Diner on 47th Street in [[Chicago]]. Each seating area at the diner was taken by groups that included at least one black person. The peaceful patrons, several from the campus of the nearby [[University of Chicago]], then tried to order; all were refused. The police were called, but when they arrived they told the management that no laws were being broken, so no arrests were made. The diner closed for the night but thereafter, according to periodic checks made by CORE activists, it no longer enforced its discriminatory policy.<ref>{{cite news |title=Birth of the sit-in |newspaper=Chicago Tribune | date=February 24, 2014 | author=Grossman, Ron | page=17}}</ref> 
     
With the encouragement of [[Melvin B. Tolson]] and Farmer, students from [[Wiley College|Wiley]] and [[Bishop College|Bishop]] Colleges organized the first sit-in in Texas in the rotunda of the [[Old Harrison County Courthouse (Texas)|Harrison County Courthouse]] in [[Marshall, Texas|Marshall]]. This sit-in directly challenged the oldest [[White Citizens Parties|White Citizens Party]] in Texas and would culminate in the reversal of [[Jim Crow laws]] in the state and the [[desegregation]] of postgraduate studies in Texas by the ''[[Sweatt v. Painter]]'' (1950) verdict. Sit-ins are often recognized for illuminating the goals of the movement in a way that young people were also able to participate in.<ref>{{Citation |last=Schmidt |first=Christopher W. |title=The Sit-In Movement |date=2018-07-30 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History |url=https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-445 |access-date=2024-07-29 |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.445 |isbn=978-0-19-932917-5|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Sit-ins were an integral part of the nonviolent strategy of civil disobedience and mass protests that eventually led to passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] which ended legally sanctioned racial segregation in the United States and also passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]] that struck down many racially motivated barriers used to deny voting rights to non-whites.

====1955 Baltimore, Maryland====
{{See also|Read's Drug Store}}
One of the earliest lunch counter sit-ins of the [[Civil Rights Movement]] was started by a group of [[Morgan State University|Morgan State College]] (now University) students and the Baltimore chapter of CORE. Their goal was to desegregate Read's drug stores. The peaceful [[wikt:impromptu#Adjective|impromptu]] sit-in lasted less than one half an hour and the students were not served. They left voluntarily and no one was arrested. After losing business from the sit-in and several local protests, two days later the ''[[Baltimore Afro-American]]'' newspaper ran a story featuring Arthur Nattans Sr., then President of Read's, who was quoted saying, "We will serve all customers throughout our entire stores, including the fountains, and this becomes effective immediately". As a result, 37 Baltimore-area lunch counters became desegregated.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pousson|first=Eli|title=Why the West Side Matters: Read's Drug Store and Baltimore's Civil Rights Heritage|url=http://www.baltimoreheritage.org/2011/01/why-the-west-side-matters-reads-drug-store-and-baltimores-civil-rights-heritage/|access-date=July 14, 2014|publisher=[[Baltimore Heritage|Baltimore Heritage Organization]]|date=January 7, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gunts|first=Edward|title=Read's drugstore flap brings Baltimore civil rights history to life|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2011/02/08/reads-drugstore-flap-brings-baltimore-civil-rights-history-to-life/|access-date=July 14, 2014|newspaper=[[Baltimore Sun]]|date=February 8, 2011}}</ref> Despite also being led by students and successfully targeting segregation at a store lunch counter, the Read's Drug Store sit-in did not garner the same level of attention as the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/93|title=Read's Drug Store|first=Eli|last=Pousson|publisher=baltimoreheritage.org|accessdate=May 25, 2023}}</ref>

====1957 Durham, North Carolina====
{{Main|Royal Ice Cream sit-in}}
At another early sit-in, the "Royal Seven," a group of three women and four men from [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]], [[North Carolina]], sat in at the Royal Ice Cream Parlor on June 23, 1957, to protest practices of segregation.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim//timhis57.htm#1957royal Royal Ice Cream Sit-in — Durham, NC] ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive</ref>  The activists were arrested and charged with trespassing.  Their efforts are now recognized via historical markers in Durham. They went to court three times; each case ended in their being found guilty.

====1958 Wichita and Oklahoma City====
{{Main|Dockum Drug Store sit-in|Clara Luper}}
This sit-in for the purpose of integrating segregated establishments began on July 19, 1958, in [[Wichita, Kansas]], at Dockum Drugs, a store in the old Rexall chain.<ref name=NPR>Eckels, Carla. [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6355095 "Kansas Sit-In Gets Its Due at Last"], [[National Public Radio]], October 21, 2006. Accessed September 15, 2010.</ref> In early August, the drugstore became integrated, then remainder of Dockum stores in all of Kansas. A few weeks later on August 19, 1958, in [[Oklahoma City]], a nationally recognized sit-in at the Katz Drug Store lunch counter occurred. The Oklahoma City Sit-in Movement was led by [[NAACP Youth Council]] leader [[Clara Luper]], a local high school teacher, and young local students, including Luper's eight-year-old daughter, who suggested the sit-in be held. The group quickly desegregated the Katz Drug Store lunch counters. It took several more years, but she and the students, using the tactic, integrated all of Oklahoma City's eating establishments. Today, in downtown [[Wichita, Kansas]], a statue depicting a waitress at a counter serving people honors this pioneering sit-in.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?306264-1/dockum-drug-store-sitin|title=Dockum Drug Store Sit-In, May 10 2012 - Video - C-SPAN.org|website=C-SPAN.org}}</ref> Despite the notable attention that has historically been given to the 1960 Greensboro sit-in, the 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in in fact employed the same strategy that would be used in Greensboro one-and-a-half years later.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2018/07/29/african-american-history-in-oklahoma-contains-sit-ins-soldiers-entrepreneurs-and-more/60510897007/|title=African-American history in Oklahoma contains sit-ins, soldiers, entrepreneurs and more|first=Bob L.|last=Backburn|publisher=The Oklahoman|date=July 29, 2018|accessdate=April 27, 2023}}</ref>

====1960 Greensboro and Nashville====
{{Main|Greensboro sit-ins|Nashville sit-ins}}
Following the [[Oklahoma City]] sit-ins, the tactic of non-violent student sit-ins spread. The [[Greensboro sit-ins]] at a [[F.W. Woolworth Company|Woolworth's]] in [[Greensboro, North Carolina]], on February 1, 1960, launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm#1960greensboro First Southern Sit-in, Greensboro NC] ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive</ref> Within weeks, sit-in campaigns had begun in nearly a dozen cities, primarily targeting Woolworth's and [[S. H. Kress & Co.|S. H. Kress]] and other stores of other national chains.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm#1960sitins Sit-ins Spread Across the South] ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive</ref>

The largest and best-organized of these campaigns were the [[Nashville sit-ins]], whose groundwork was already underway before the Greensboro events. They involved hundreds of participants, and led to the successful desegregation of Nashville [[lunch counter]]s.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm#1960nsm Nashville Student Movement] ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive</ref> Most of the participants in the Nashville sit-ins were college students, and many, such as [[Diane Nash]], [[James Bevel]], [[Bernard Lafayette]], and [[C. T. Vivian]], went on to lead, strategize, and direct almost every aspect of the 1960s civil rights movement. The students of the [[historically black colleges and universities]] in the city played a critical role in implementing the Nashville sit-ins.{{Citation needed|date=April 2014}}

'''1963 Flagstaff Arizona'''

The NAACP recruited 10 high school and middle school students from Flagstaff Junior High School and Flagstaff High School to protest the refusal of the El Charro Cafe to serve a bus load of Negro tourists from New Jersey. Shirley Sims, a 14-year-old member of the NAACP Youth Corp at Flagstaff Junior High School, accepted the invitation to participate in a [[nonviolent]] sit-in demonstration. Each of the youth members were given $5 with the instructions to go inside and sit down. If they were able to order a meal they would pay for it, if not they would sit there. Reportedly, none of the members were served. Joseph Watkins, an official of the Arizona Branch of the NAACP, reported to the Flagstaff City Council that none of the youths had been served and that there had been no violence. Watkins also stated that unless the restaurant had a change in policy, more sit ins would be staged, "but whatever methods we employ or encourage will be peaceful." Sims stated in an ''Arizona Daily Sun'' article<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://azdailysun.com/news/local/integrating-flagstaff-shirley-sims-at-the-center-of-desegregation/article_0d733118-404f-11e1-9b3a-0019bb2963f4.html|title=Integrating Flagstaff: Shirley Sims: At the center of desegregation|first=BETSEY BRUNER Sun Staff|last=Reporter|date=January 17, 2012|website=Arizona Daily Sun}}</ref> in 2017 that, "it wasn't scary because a lot of the people who frequented that restaurant were our teachers, and they encouraged us."

====1961 Rock Hill, South Carolina====
The [[Friendship Nine]] was a group of African American men who went to jail after staging a sit-in at a segregated [[McCrory's]] [[lunch counter]] in [[Rock Hill, South Carolina]] in 1961. The group gained nationwide attention because they followed the Nashville student's strategy of not bailing themselves out of jail and called it "Jail, No Bail",<ref>{{cite news |title=Associated Press'Sing-In' Negroes Eat Hearty; Say 'Jail—No Bail' |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Spartanburg Herald |date=February 21, 1961 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g3ssAAAAIBAJ&pg=7405,2802776&dq=rock+hill+sit-in&hl=en |access-date=December 1, 2010 |quote=Eight Negro Demonstrators is a disciplinary cell at the York County Prison Camp accepted and ate second helpings Monday of the full meal given every third day to prisoners on bread and water. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Scoggins|first=Michael, Rawlinson David|title=Rock Hill, Jail No Bail & The Friendship Nine|url=http://www.friendshipcollege.org/jailnobail.html|publisher=Friendship Jr. College 445 Allen St. Rock Hill, South Carolina|access-date=October 21, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117063355/http://www.friendshipcollege.org/jailnobail.html|archive-date=November 17, 2011}}"(..) The first man tried was Charles Taylor, the Friendship student from New Jersey. Taylor was tried, found guilty, convicted, and sentenced to $100 fine or 30 days hard labor on the York County Prison Farm. The protesters' attorney, an African-American lawyer from Sumter named Ernest A. Finney, then asked the judge to let Taylor's trial be used as a basis for the other nine and the judge agreed. The other nine were then tried, found guilty, and sentenced to the same punishment. Taylor was concerned about possibly losing his athletic scholarship at Friendship, so with the assistance of the NAACP, he paid his bail and was released. The NAACP offered to pay the bail for the remaining nine protesters but they refused, and on February 2, they began serving out their 30-day sentences on the county prison farm. After beginning their sentence on the county farm, the nine protesters were quickly given the appellation "Friendship Nine" by the press, and the case became famous nationwide. Motorcades of other protesters and supporters converged on the prison, and members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) came to Rock Hill and demonstrated; they too were arrested, jailed and refused bail. Over the course of the next year further demonstrations and arrests followed in Rock Hill, as well as in other cities throughout the United States. Protesters across the country adopted the "jail no bail" policy implemented by the Nashville students and the Friendship Nine, and served out their jail sentences rather than helping to subsidize a system that supported segregation and inequality. These acts of heroism by the Friendship Nine and others helped to spur even larger protests like the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963 and the famous march from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965. (..)"</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Jail, No Bail' Idea Stymied Cities' Profiting From Civil Rights Protesters|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june11/jail_03-07.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310004201/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june11/jail_03-07.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 10, 2011|work=South Carolina ETV's "Carolina Stories."|publisher=The PBS NewsHour|access-date=October 21, 2011}}"The 'Jail, No Bail' strategy became a new tactic in the fight for civil rights. Documentary produced by South Carolina ETV documenting the key moment in civil rights history." (Video and Audio)</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Jail, No Bail|url=http://www.scetv.org/index.php/carolina_stories/show/jail_no_bail/|work=Carolina Stories|publisher=South Carolina ETV|access-date=October 21, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219005915/http://www.scetv.org/index.php/carolina_stories/show/jail_no_bail/|archive-date=December 19, 2011}}"(..) In previous sit-ins across the South, protestors were arrested, processed by the police, fined and then released, creating a dubious revenue stream from which many municipalities easily profited. But when the Friendship students went before the judge, they chose to serve their time behind bars.  For the first time, not only did the city not collect its $100 per person, it actually had to pay to house and feed the men. (..) Word of their action spread like wildfire, receiving national media attention, including the New York Times.  The "Jail, No Bail" strategy became the new tactic that helped galvanize the civil rights protest movement. (..)"</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hartford|first=Bruce|title=Rock Hill SC, "Jail-No-Bail" Sit-ins (Feb-Mar)|url=http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis61.htm|work=The Civil Rights Movement Archive|publisher=Westwind Writers Inc.|access-date=October 21, 2011}}"(..) At the October 1960 SNCC strategy conference in Atlanta, some activists argue for "Jail-No-Bail" tactics. They take a Gandhian position that paying bail or fines indicates acceptance of an immoral system and validates their own arrests. And by serving their sentences, they dramatize the injustice, intensify the struggle, and gain additional media coverage. There is also a practical component to "Jail-No-Bail." The Movement has little money and most southern Blacks are poor. It is hard to scrape up bail money, and sit-in struggles are faltering — not from lack of volunteers to risk arrest — but from lack of money to bail them out. Moreover, paying fines provides the cops with financial resources that are then used to continue suppressing the freedom struggle. By refusing bail, they render meaningless the no-money-for-bail barrier and by serving time they put financial pressure on local authorities who have to pay the costs of incarcerating them.  (..)"</ref> which lessened the huge financial burden [[civil rights]] groups were facing as the sit-in movement spread across the South. They became known as the Friendship Nine because eight of the nine men were students at Rock Hill's [[Friendship Junior College]]. They are sometimes referred to as the Rock Hill Nine.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Friendship Nine / January 31, 1961 |newspaper=Herald Online |date=February 22, 2004 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/heraldonline/access/550272941.html?dids=550272941:550272941&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+22%2C+2004&author=Brittany+Rawlinson%2C+junior%2C+Northwestern+High+School&pub=Herald+Online&desc=The+Friendship+Nine+%2F+January+31%2C+1961&pqatl=google |access-date=December 1, 2010 |quote=They were students at Friendship College and called themselves the Friendship Nine. The members of this group were James Wells, William "Dub" Massey, Robert McCullough, John Gaines, William "Scoop" Williamson, Willie McLeod, Thomas Gaither, Clarence Graham, Charles Taylor and Mack Workman. }}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

====1962 University of Chicago, Illinois====
{{Main|University of Chicago sit-ins}}
In January 1962, [[Bernie Sanders]], then a student at the [[University of Chicago]], helped lead a sit-in in protesting university president [[George Wells Beadle]]'s segregated campus housing policy. 
"We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university-owned apartments," Sanders told a crowd of about 200 students. After several days of protests, Beadle met with students to form a commission to investigate discrimination.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Frizell |first=Sam |url=https://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/ |title=The Radical Education of Bernie Sanders |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=May 26, 2015 |access-date=September 10, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |url=http://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/political-education |title=A political education |work=The University of Chicago Magazine |date=January 2015|access-date=September 10, 2015 }}</ref>

===Disability rights movement===

====1935 New York City====
The [[League of the Physically Handicapped]] in New York City was formed in May 1935 to protest discrimination by the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA).<ref name="longmore">{{cite journal|last1=Longmore|first1=PK|author-link=Paul K. Longmore|last2=Goldberger|first2=David|title=The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History|journal=The Journal of American History|date=December 2000|volume=87|issue=3|pages=888–922|doi=10.2307/2675276|jstor=2675276|pmid=17639642}}</ref> The [[Home Relief|Home Relief Bureau]] of New York City stamped applications by physically handicapped applicants with "PH", which stood for "physically handicapped". Marked as "unemployable", they were denied access to WPA-created jobs.<ref name="isr">{{cite web|last1=Rosenthal|first1=Keith|title=Pioneers in the fight for disability rights The League of the Physically Handicapped|url=https://isreview.org/issue/90/pioneers-fight-disability-rights|website=International Socialist Review|access-date=April 29, 2018}}</ref> To protest, members of the League held a sit-in at that Home Relief Bureau for nine days beginning on May 29, 1935, and a weekend sit-in at the WPA headquarters, also in New York City, in June 1935.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/52649280/ |title=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York on May 13, 1936 · Page 4|website=Newspapers.com|date=May 13, 1936 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://isreview.org/issue/90/pioneers-fight-disability-rights|title=Pioneers in the fight for disability rights &#124; International Socialist Review|first=Keith|last=Rosenthal|website=isreview.org}}</ref><ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Plea by Disabled Put to WPA Chief; New York Group, Camping in Washington, Will Consult Williams Again Today|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/08/17/archives/plea-by-disabled-put-to-wpa-chief-new-york-group-camping-in.html|access-date=April 29, 2018|date=August 17, 1937}}</ref> These actions eventually led to the creation of 1,500 jobs for physically handicapped workers in New York City in 1936.<ref name="zames">{{cite book|last1=Fleischer|first1=Doris Zames|last2=Zames|first2=Frieda|title=The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation|url=https://archive.org/details/disabilityrights0000flei|url-access=registration|date=2001|publisher=Temple University Press|location=Philadelphia|isbn=1439907447|page=906}}</ref><ref name="timeline">{{cite web|title=Disability History Timeline |url=http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm |website=Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Independent Living Management. |publisher=Temple University |access-date=January 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220065328/http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm |archive-date=December 20, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="consumer">{{cite journal|last1=Longmore|first1=PK|author-link= Paul K. Longmore|title=Disability Policy and Politics: Considering Consumer Influence|journal=Journal of Disability Policy Studies|date=January 2000|volume=11|issue=1|pages=36–44|doi=10.1177/104420730001100111|s2cid=145123577}}</ref>

====1972 New York City====
An early version of the [[Rehabilitation Act of 1973]] was vetoed by President [[Richard Nixon]] in October 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://acl.gov/news-and-events/acl-blog/rehabilitation-act-1973-independence-bound|title=The Rehabilitation Act of 1973: Independence Bound &#124; ACL Administration for Community Living|website=acl.gov}}</ref> Later in 1972, [[Disabled in Action]] demonstrated in New York City with a sit-in protesting this veto. Led by [[Judith Heumann]], eighty activists staged this sit-in on Madison Avenue, stopping traffic.<ref name="SitinTimeline">{{cite web|url=http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm |title=Disability History Timeline |year=2002 |work=Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Independent Living Management |publisher=[[Temple University]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220065328/http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm |archive-date=December 20, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

====1977 San Francisco====
Initially [[Joseph A. Califano Jr.|Joseph Califano]], U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, refused to sign meaningful regulations for [[Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973]], which was the first U.S. federal civil rights protection for people with disabilities.<ref name="Short History of the 504 Sit in">{{cite web|url=https://dredf.org/504site/histover.html|title=Short History of the 504 Sit in|work=dredf.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909052739/http://dredf.org/504site/histover.html|archive-date=September 9, 2016}}</ref> After an ultimatum and deadline, demonstrations took place in ten U.S. cities on April 5, 1977, including the beginning of the [[504 Sit-in]] at the San Francisco Office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This sit-in, led by [[Judith Heumann]] and organized by [[Kitty Cone]], lasted until May 4, 1977, a total of 25 days, with more than 150 people refusing to leave. It is the longest sit-in at a federal building to date. [[Joseph A. Califano Jr.|Joseph Califano]] signed the regulations on April 28, 1977.<ref name="Timeline">{{cite web | url = http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm | title = Disability History Timeline | year = 2002 | work = Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Independent Living Management | publisher = [[Temple University]] | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131220065328/http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm | archive-date = December 20, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="Berkeley">{{cite web|url=http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/resources/timeline.html|title=The Regents of the University of California. 2008. "The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement." Berkeley, CA: The University of California Berkeley|access-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref><ref name="disabilityhistory.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.disabilityhistory.org/people.html#heumann|title=Disability Social History Project, article title Famous (and not-so-famous) People with Disabilities|access-date=October 6, 2014|archive-date=February 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227074113/http://www.disabilityhistory.org/people.html#heumann|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="EDGE - Curriculum - Biology">{{cite web|url=http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/edge/curriculum/gov_contenta7.htm|title=EDGE - Curriculum - Biology|work=disabilityhistory.org|access-date=January 27, 2015|archive-date=January 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123052011/http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/edge/curriculum/gov_contenta7.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt1w1001mt&brand=oac4&doc.view=entire_text|title=Political Organizer for Disability Rights, 1970s-1990s, and Strategist for Section 504 Demonstrations, 1977|work=cdlib.org}}</ref><ref name="fof">{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.fofweb.com/History/MainPrintPage.asp?iPin=EADH0161&DataType=AmericanHistory&WinType=Free|title=Kitty Cone, Facts On File, Inc., 2009. American History Online; Facts on File information obtained from ''Encyclopedia of American Disability History''|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of American Disability History}}</ref>

===Easement payment===
On June 1, 1955, in [[Door County, Wisconsin]], Mrs. Victor Baker sat on a chair over three charges of dynamite, and later moved to her car parked near the dynamite. She blocked the construction of a state highway for 17 hours to protest the failure of the county government to pay the entirety of the amount owed her and her husband for the additional right-of-way taken from her home and orchard along the construction route. The county had planned to pay a week later, after the state sent the funds. On the morning of June 2, the county highway commissioner came by with a check for an additional $1,500 and she ended the protest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubinfo.co.door.wi.us:8080/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=1e8fc801-90a4-4104-8e86-19a1ea0947dc/wsbd0000/20141103/00001052&pg_seq=1&search_doc=&query1_modifier=AND&query1=playing%20with%20dynamite&query1_field=CONTENT&query2_modifier=AND&query2_field=DATE_PUBLISHED_MILLIS&query2_min=-473385600000&query2_max=-441936000000 |title=Playing with Dynamite has asked result: $1,500 check |work=Door County Advocate|date=June 2, 1955 |access-date=October 22, 2021}}</ref>

===Feminist movement===

====1969 Marlene Dixon====
In 1969 there was a sit-in at the University of Chicago to protest the firing of feminist sociology professor [[Marlene Dixon]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUAbout/timeline.html |title=CWLU Chronology: A timeline for Second Wave Feminism |publisher=Uic.edu |date=April 4, 1968 |access-date=May 8, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005075524/http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUAbout/timeline.html |archive-date=October 5, 2014 }}</ref> On February 12, 1969, a faculty committee chaired by Hanna H. Gray, Associate Professor of History, concluded that no violation of normal appointment procedures had occurred, but recommended that Dixon be offered a one-year terminal reappointment since the resolution of her status had been delayed by the controversy surrounding the decision; Dixon refused.<ref name="uchicago1">{{cite web|url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/collections/subject/activism.html |title=Special Collections Research Center |publisher=Lib.uchicago.edu |access-date=May 8, 2015}}</ref> On February 15, the protestors still sitting-in voted to stop.<ref name="uchicago1"/> In March 1969, at the decision of university disciplinary committees, forty-two students involved in the Administration Building sit-in were expelled, eighty-one were suspended, and three were placed on probation.<ref name="uchicago1"/>

A "Statement on the University of Chicago sit-in" was included in the feminist anthology ''[[Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement]]'' (edited by [[Robin Morgan]], published in 1970); this statement refers to the Marlene Dixon sit-in.<ref name="uchicago1"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement (Book, 1970) |publisher=[WorldCat.org] |oclc = 96157}}</ref><ref name="Handler2004">{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Handler|title=Significant Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0tbEeTAEloC&pg=PA36|date=June 15, 2004|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-19473-4|pages=36–}}</ref>

====1969 Oak Room sit-in====
By the early 1950s, women were allowed inside the [[Oak Room (Plaza Hotel)|Oak Room and Bar]] during the evenings, but still barred until 3 p.m. on weekdays, while the stock exchanges operated.<ref name="nycgov">{{cite web |date=July 12, 2005 |title=Plaza Hotel Interior |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2174.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824055351/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/plazahotel.pdf |archive-date=August 24, 2014 |access-date=January 22, 2015 |publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission}}</ref><ref name="Gathje2000"/><ref name=":0OAk">{{Cite book|last1=Harris|first1=Bill|url=https://archive.org/details/plazaharr00harr|title=The Plaza|last2=Clucas|first2=Philip|last3=Smart|first3=Ted|last4=Gibbon|first4=David|last5=Westin Hotels|date=1981|pages=55–56|publisher=Poplar Books|location=Secaucas, N.J.|language=en|oclc=1036787315}}</ref> In February 1969, [[Betty Friedan]] and other members of the [[National Organization for Women]] held a sit-in and then picketed to protest this; the gender restriction was removed a few months later.<ref name="Times2">{{cite web |author=Curtis Gathje |date=January 16, 2005 |title=What Would Eloise Say? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/opinion/opinionspecial/16gathje.html |access-date=January 8, 2015 |work=New York Times |archive-date=January 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109023014/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/opinion/opinionspecial/16gathje.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Gathje2000">{{Cite book|last=Gathje|first=Curtis|url=https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=01ACC6C4-CDC1-4A20-9A6D-AAAFB4C818F5|title=At the Plaza: an illustrated history of the world's most famous hotel|date=2000|isbn=978-1-4668-6700-0|pages=142|language=en|oclc=874906584|access-date=December 1, 2020|archive-date=March 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210331172612/https://www.overdrive.com/media/1553249/at-the-plaza|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="2:0OAk">{{Cite book|last1=Harris|first1=Bill|url=https://archive.org/details/plazaharr00harr|title=The Plaza|last2=Clucas|first2=Philip|last3=Smart|first3=Ted|last4=Gibbon|first4=David|last5=Westin Hotels|date=1981|pages=56|publisher=Poplar Books|location=Secaucas, N.J.|language=en|oclc=1036787315}}</ref>

====1970 ''Ladies' Home Journal''====
In March 1970, feminists held an 11-hour sit-in at the ''[[Ladies' Home Journal]]''{{'s}} office, which resulted in them getting the opportunity to produce a section of the magazine that August.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gibson |first=Megan |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2088114_2087975_2087966,00.html |title=The 'Ladies' Home Journal' Sit-In - A Brief History of Women's Protests |magazine=Time |date=August 12, 2011 |access-date=January 28, 2015}}</ref>

===Gun control lobby===

====2016 United States House of Representatives====
{{Main|2016 United States House of Representatives sit-in}}
The sit-in began on June 22, 2016, when members of the [[House Democratic Caucus]] declared their intention to remain on the floor of the [[United States House of Representatives]] until its Republican Speaker, [[Paul Ryan]], allowed votes on gun safety legislation in the aftermath of the [[Orlando nightclub shooting]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/democrats-sitin-gun-control-224687 |title=How Democrats mounted their guns sit-in |work=[[Politico]] |date=June 22, 2016}}</ref>

A group of the Democrats ultimately occupied the floor through the night, only leaving on the afternoon of June 23. None of the measures demanded by the occupying members were given a vote.<ref name=hufpro>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-democrats-end-their-sit-in-protest-over-gun-reform_us_576c1760e4b0aa4dc3d4b28f?section= |title=House Democrats End Their Sit-In Protest Over Gun Reform |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=June 24, 2016}}</ref>

===LGBTQ+ rights movement===

====1965 Philadelphia====
{{Main|Dewey's sit-ins}}
On April 25, 1965, the first of two sit-ins occurred at the popular Dewey's Restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was one of the earliest demonstrations advocating for the [[LGBT]] community in United States history. Three unidentified teenagers and approximately 150 supporters walked into the Dewey's location at 219 South 17th Street, refusing to leave in the name of civil rights. This initial sit-in was in response to Dewey's recently implemented discriminatory policy claiming it would not serve “homosexuals,” “masculine women,” “feminine men,” or “persons wearing nonconformist clothing.”<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stein |first1=Marc |title=Marc Stein: Dewey's Sit-In, Philadelphia, April 25, 1965 |url=http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/deweys-sit-in |publisher=OutHistory |date=April 20, 2015}}</ref> Philadelphia police arrested the three teenagers, which led to further grass-roots action. [[Clark Polak]], president of the local [[Janus Society]], extended support to the protesters. Members of the [[Janus Society]] and other supporters circulated approximately 1500 flyers throughout the local area over the next five days.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Buck |first1=Stephanie |title=Philly's largest gay hangout denied service to 150 people in 1965 for simply 'looking gay' |url=https://timeline.com/deweys-sit-in-lgbtq-philadelphia-a7c8a62120c3 |website=Timeline |access-date=October 25, 2020 |date=May 19, 2017}}</ref>

On May 2, 1965, protesters staged a second sit-in at Dewey's, although this time there were no arrests. Soon after the second sit-in, Dewey's Restaurant reversed their discriminatory policy. The Dewey's sit-ins helped continue the path towards equal rights for many LGBT people in the United States.

====1966 New York====
{{main|Julius sip-in}}
On April 21, 1966, gay activists of the [[Mattachine Society]] of New York (MSNY) conducted a "Sip-In" at [[Julius (restaurant)|Julius' Bar]] at 10th Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/nyregion/before-the-stonewall-riots-there-was-the-sip-in.html |title=Before the Stonewall Riots There Was the Sip-In |work=The New York Times|date=April 21, 2016 |access-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref> This established the right of gay people to be [[Alcohol laws of New York|served in licensed premises in New York]].<ref name="Watson2008">{{cite web | last=Watson | first=Steve | title=Before Stonewall | website=Village Voice | date=June 17, 2008 | url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-06-17/news/before-stonewall/ | access-date=June 5, 2019| url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701034431/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0825%2Cbefore-stonewall%2C471396%2C1.html |archive-date=July 1, 2008}}</ref> This [[List of LGBT actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots|action]] helped clear the way for gay premises with state liquor licenses.

=== Protests against the Israel-Hamas War ===
In April of 2024, student activists at Columbia University, with [[Students for Justice in Palestine]] and [[Jewish Voice for Peace]] began to conduct a sit-in on the university's campus, demanding the university [[Disinvestment from Israel|divest from Israel]] in response to the [[Gaza war]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barkan |first=Ross |date=2024-02-07 |title=How the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Drove a Wedge Into the Democratic Party |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/magazine/israel-october-7-democrats.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207102041/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/magazine/israel-october-7-democrats.html |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Columbia's demonstration influenced protests and [[List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024|sit-ins at other universities]] both in and out of the United States. In response to the demonstrations, the White House spokesman stated, "The [[Joe Biden|president]] believes that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach. That is not an example of peaceful protests."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shalal |first1=Andreal |title=White House denounces takeover of campus building as protests escalate |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-denounces-takeover-campus-building-protests-escalate-2024-04-30/ |website=Reuters |access-date=5 May 2024}}</ref>

=== Hungary ===

==== Eco-protest movement ====
[[File:Ligetvédők (9).JPG|thumb|Sit-in, Kertem]]
In 2016, eco-protesters occupied the area of the Kertem in [[Budapest]] in protest against the building plan in [[Városliget]].{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

=== Pakistan ===

==== 2014 anti-government protest ====
{{Main|2014 Pakistan anti-government protest|Inqilab March}}
The Azadi March (Freedom March) led by [[Imran Khan]] of [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf]] (PTI), and [[Inqilab March]] (Revolution March) led by [[Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri]] of [[Pakistan Awami Tehrik]] (PAT) are political,<ref>{{cite news|title=Pakistan crisis: Islamabad sees more violent protests|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29021033|access-date=September 26, 2014|agency=BBC|publisher=BBC|date=September 1, 2014}}</ref> aiming at a probe of election rigging by [[Nawaz Sharif]], as well as restoration of "true democracy and social, political and economical reforms." The [[2014 Azadi March|Azadi March]] started on August 14, 2014, and ended on December 17, 2014. It is considered to be the longest-lasting public sit-in in Pakistan's history. [[Concepcion Picciotto]]'s sit-in was the more long-lasting sit-in, but on an individual level.

=== South Africa ===
During [[apartheid]] a number of sit-in protests against the country's policy of racial segregation were staged in South African embassies in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/30/us/apartheid-protest-takes-page-from-60-s-history.html|title=Apartheid Protest Takes Page from 60's History|last=Gamarekian|first=Barbara|date=November 30, 1984|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 29, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In post-apartheid South Africa two notable sit-ins were the occupation of South African universities to protest high tuition during the [[FeesMustFall]] protests and the [[Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in]] to protest for the resettlement of refugees to third countries due to [[Xenophobia in South Africa|xenophobia]].

=== Wales ===

The [[Welsh Language Society]]'s (WLS) first public protest took place in February 1963 in [[Aberystwyth]] town centre where members pasted posters on the post office in an attempt to be arrested and go to trial.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/30/dr-tedi-millward-welsh-language-protest-aberystwyth | title=Dr Tedi Millward, at the first Welsh language protest, Aberystwyth, 2 February 1963| newspaper=The Guardian| date=October 30, 2015| last1=Booth| first1=Hannah}}</ref> When it became apparent that they would not be arrested for the posters, the WLS members then moved to Pont Trefechan in [[Aberystwyth]], where around seventy members and supporters held a sit-in blocking road traffic for half an hour.<ref>Dylan Philps. "history of the welsh language society" in The Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by G.H. Jenkins and M.W. Williams. Page 471</ref>

In 1968, a sit-in was held at the news and television studio and the newsroom department of the [[BBC]] at Broadway, [[Cardiff]], by the WLS. The sit-in was calling for the BBC to use more Welsh.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/30/welsh-bbc-studios-protest-sit-in-language-1968|title=Sit-in at BBC Welsh studios – archive, 30 November 1968|author=Guardian Staff|date=November 30, 2016|website=the Guardian}}</ref>

=== Dharna ===
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[[File:Dharna by Nirbhay Jan Manch in Virar.jpg|thumb|right|A dharna in [[Virar]], [[Maharashtra]]]]
A '''dharna'''  ([[Hindi]]: धरना; [[Urdu]]: دهرنا) is a non-violent sit-in protest, which may include a [[Fasting|fast]] undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor, in [[India]] as a means of obtaining compliance with a demand for justice, state response of criminal cases,<ref>{{cite web | title = Family members hold dharna under tree where girls were hanged |publisher= The Indian Express | url = http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/family-members-hold-dharna-under-tree-where-girls-were-hanged/ 
|date= June 9, 2014| access-date = June 10, 2014  }}</ref> or payment of a debt.  The word originates from the Sanskrit word ''dharnam''.

Dharna generally refers to fixing one's mind on an object.  It refers to whole-heartedly pledging toward an outcome or to inculcating a directed attitude. Dharna is consciously and diligently holding a point of view with the intent of achieving a goal.

Historically in India, it was a popular form of protest during the [[Indian independence movement]] and part of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s [[satyagraha]] form of [[civil disobedience]] and protest.<ref>{{cite book|title=Rediscovering Gandhi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxJvoBWTAXoC&pg=PA38|year=2008|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-480-6|pages=38–}}</ref><ref name="Guha2013">{{cite book|first=Ramachandra|last=Guha|title=Gandhi Before India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XS7UAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1-IA34|year=2013|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-93-5118-322-8|pages=1–}}</ref>  There were also recorded instances of indigenous officials charged with recruitment quotas for the British Indian Army staging dharna as a recruitment tool in Punjab during World War I.<ref name="garrison">{{cite book |last1=Yong |first1=Tan Tai |url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-garrison-state/book227930 |title=The Garrison State: the military, government and society in colonial Punjab 1849-1947 |chapter=Garrison Province at Work |editor-last=Chandra |editor-first=Bipan |editor2-last=Mukherjee |editor2-first=Mridula |editor3-last=Mukherjee |editor3-first=Aditya |series=Sage Series in Modern Indian History-VIII |location=Thousand Oaks, CA |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2005 |page=134 |accessdate=July 9, 2022 |quote=local recruiters adopted a method of "sitting dharna" in which they would show up at a village and insist they be fed and housed until recruits were produced }}</ref>

More recently, there are designated places for conducting Dharna, and a permission is required for it. Often, those practicing dharna break the permission leading to clashes with law enforcement.  For example, the [[Shaheen Bagh protest]] was a sit-in peaceful protest, led by women, that began in response to the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in both houses of the Parliament of India on December 11, 2019, and the ensuing police intervention against students at Jamia Millia Islamia who were opposing the Amendment. Protesters agitated not only against the citizenship issues of the CAA, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR), but also against police brutality, unemployment, poverty and for women's safety. Mainly consisting of Muslim women, the protesters at Shaheen Bagh, since December 14, 2019, blocked a road in New Delhi using non-violent resistance for 101 days until March 24, 2020.

In Pakistan, the term was first used in 1958 by [[Abdul Qayyum Khan]] against the [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Prime Minister]] [[Firoz Khan Noon|Feroze Khan]]'s [[Feroze Khan administration|administration]] to remove his [[President of Pakistan|President]] [[Iskander Mirza]] but its effective usage was made by [[Naeem Siddiqui]] proposed to use dharna politics for obtaining objectives and latter on Qazi Hussain Ahmed and [[Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan|Jamaat-e-Islami]] organised dharna in Pakistan in 1993, Fazl Ur Rehman, Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Safdar awan and other political and religious leaders are now attempting to use this strategy for their purposes.

==See also==
*[[Bed-In]], peace campaigns by [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] in 1969
*[[Die-in]]
*[[Human Be-In]]
*[[Lock-on (protest tactic)|Lock-on]]
*[[Occupation (protest)]]
*[[Occupy movement]]
*[[Picketing (protest)]]
*[[Raasta roko]]
*[[Sitdown strike]]
*[[Teach-in]]
*[[Work-in]]
*[[Women's War]] Nigeria, 1920–30

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002547/http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0170&s=feb Award Winning Documentary: ''February One''] tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that helped revitalize the Civil Rights Movement
* [http://www.campusactivism.org/uploads/sit-in-tactical-analysis.pdf "Sit-In: A Tactical Analysis", By Aaron Kreider] – Essay based on research on student sit-ins.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111017122354/http://stubbornfacts.us/random/almost_forgotten_history Almost-Forgotten History] – Story of the Wichita Dockum sit-ins
* [http://www.crmvet.org  Civil Rights Movement Archive] ~ History, personal stories, and photos of the Freedom Movement
* [http://crdl.usg.edu/events/sit_ins_atlanta_ga/ Sit-ins: Atlanta, Georgia], Civil Rights Digital Library.
* [http://crdl.usg.edu/events/sit_ins_greensboro_nc/ Sit-ins: Greensboro, North Carolina], Civil Rights Digital Library.
* [http://crdl.usg.edu/events/sit_ins_nashville_tn/ Sit-ins: Nashville, Tennessee], Civil Rights Digital Library.

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