Involved in the American Civil Rights Movement formed by students whose purpose was coordinate a nonviolent attack on segregation and other forms of racism; SNCC was a student based civil rights organization. Their actions, such as sit-ins, helped pass civil right laws.

The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. SNCC’s major contribution was in its field work, organizing voter registration drives all over the South, especially in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.

The act brought the power of the federal government into the civil rights debate. This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.

What were the effects of the Sit-In Movement? – It brought large numbers of idealistic and energized college students into the civil rights struggle. – Many African American students had become discouraged by the slow pace of desegregation. – Students like Jesse Jackson wanted to see rapid changes.

The church was not only the meeting place for the movement in the South, it also was the center of the movement in that it served as the symbol of the movement. That is to say that the church represented the freedom that the movement participants sought.

Causes- The discrimination towards blacks. The bad reputation of america. Effects- Desegregated the United States of America. cause was that the laws had not all been fair to blacks so the effects was they pushed their was until they were allowed all blacks to vote and get a chance to vote for fair laws.

The civil rights movement deeply affected American society. Among its most important achievements were two major civil rights laws passed by Congress. These laws ensured constitutional rights for African Americans and other minorities. Kennedy understood that black people deserved the full equality they were demanding.

Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s broke the pattern of public facilities’ being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period (1865–77).