History section of the Web site of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The site documents the sit-ins beginning on February 1, 1960 and spreading throughout the world. The Museum then explores day-to-day events and milestones of the 1960s as the movement spread throughout the south and across the nation and the world. The site has a timeline of the movement, photographs, and information on the sit-in and the participants.

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