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sit-ins
A form of nonviolent protest, employed during the 1960s in the civil rights movement and later in the movement against the Vietnam War. In a sit-in, demonstrators occupy a place open to the public, such as a racially segregated (see segregation) lunch counter or bus station, and then refuse to leave. Sit-ins were designed to provoke arrest and thereby gain attention for the demonstrators' cause.
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Where students organize walkouts and sit-ins to fight for a better education.
Those organizations energized student movements nationwide through sit-ins and demonstrations and by getting arrested as they fought for civil rights.
In telling the story of the movement from 1954 to 1965 — the key years of marches, sit-ins, grassroots organizing and federal legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — it brought the scope of the struggle to a broad audience.
They staged sit-ins and protests until legislators passed in-state tuition for their peers without papers.
Over the last 15 years, activists who grew up here — and not just Latinos — have organized rallies, staged sit-ins and formed nonprofits or community-based groups that coalesced into a multifront network standing up for people without papers.
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