sit-ins in English

noun
1
a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
This was a time of rallies, demonstrations, sit-ins , walkouts, and protests of every kind, and the music reflected the spirit of the time.

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1. Sit-ins, sit-downs, mass picketing.

2. Used sit-ins and marches to Catalyze laws in the US

3. The young generation needs arms for its marches and sit-ins.

4. In Pittsburgh, there were a few sit-ins, invasions of churches, minor civil disobedience.

5. In the early 1960s the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led Boycotts and sit-ins to desegregate many public facilities.

6. Raxaul-Birgunj and other crossings have been witnessing sit-ins and protests by the Madhesis on the Nepalese side and they are not allowing cargo traffic to go through.

7. For example, if your paper examines the Greensboro sit-ins or another event in the Civil Rights Movement, you could point out its impact on the Civil Rights Movement as a whole.

8. The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.