sncc
The SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) (pronounced "snick") was inspired by a group of black students from North Carolina A&T University at Woolworth lunch-in in Greensboro, North Carolina in February 1, 1960. These students were not served because of their skin color, so they performed a sit-in by simply not leaving until served. This nonviolent act inspired by students at Shaw University in Raleigh to make the SNCC and support their leaders by performing sit-ins in April of 1960. This started a revolution of many sit-ins that were highly effective. Sit-ins eventually gave blacks the right to be served in multiple restaurants.