Charleston sit-ins
| Charleston sit-ins | |||
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| Part of the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina | |||
| Date | April 1, 1960 | ||
| Location | S.H. Kress lunch counter, 281 King Street, Charleston, South Carolina | ||
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The Charleston sit-ins were a series of peaceful protests during the sit-in movement of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in Charleston, South Carolina. Unlike at other sit-ins in the South where the protestors were mainly college students, the protestors in Charleston were mainly high school students. The earliest such protest was a sit-in at a lunch counter by Charleston high school students, but similar protests continued thereafter.