The Chapel Hill Nine were a group of nine African American high school students from Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), who staged a sit-in at the Colonial Drugstore on February 28, 1960, during the Civil Rights Movement. Heavily inspired by another civil rights protest, the Greensboro sit-ins, the nine students challenged the segregation policy at the Colonial Drugstore by peacefully occupying seats at a whites-only lunch counter.
The Chapel Hill Nine were a group of nine African American high school students from Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), who staged a sit-in at the Colonial Drugstore on February 28, 1960, during the Civil Rights Movement. Heavily inspired by another civil rights protest, the Greensboro sit-ins, the nine students challenged the segregation policy at the Colonial Drugstore by peacefully occupying seats at a whites-only lunch counter.
Source: Wikipedia "Chapel Hill Nine" · CC BY-SA 4.0
Share this article: X · Bluesky