Sit ins
February 1960, four students decided to organise a ‘sit in.’ A sit in is when a group of people go into a ‘white only’ place and sit there. Sit ins where not new protests as black people had sat and waited to be served in white only places. The Greensboro sit-in had sparked a wave of similar protests across North Carolina and then the rest of the South.

Whites Only.
In February 1960 a group of black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, refused to leave a whites-only lunch counter at which they were denied service. Their demonstration began the sit-in movement, a series of peaceful protests that brought renewed national attention to the injustices of the segregated South and eventually forced the federal government to protect the rights of African-Americans actively. Over several weeks the strategy spread to dozens of southern cities and towns; students from local colleges sat quietly for hours, studying or sometimes reading Bibles, while white employees refused to serve them. The students occupied all the seats at the counter and left only when it closed (which was often early, thanks to the protests). Frequently local townspeople shouted insults and threats, and in Nashville, Tennessee, the protesters were physically attacked.
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Freedom Riders
The freedom rides took place in 1961, they decided the way to do it was to have an intersegregated group of protestors ride on a bus through the south. It began with two buses full of people, the two buses were attacked at several stops, just outside of Birmingham – in Anniston – the lead bus was bombed. Three people were killed whilst 12 others were permitted into hospital. Four hundred freedom riders were arrested and a much larger number had been beaten up.

In 1961 CORE undertook a new tactic