1960: Black youth decide now is the time to act, sit-in movement begins
Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026
From the mid-1950s on, the Black-led working-class movement to end Jim Crow segregation was propelled by a series of pitched battles in areas across the South, like the victorious Montgomery bus boycott, and the nationwide solidarity they inspired. In 1960,…





