1960년대 흑인민권운동의 전환점 = 그린즈버러 연좌시위

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

On February 1 1960, four black students sat-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and a wave of sit-ins swept the American South in the spring of 1960. The so-called “Lunch counter sit-ins” was a pivotal step in the struggle for racial equality in the United States and also foreshadowed the student protest that became emblematic of the 1960s.
The Greensboro Sit-ins pumped new life into the black civil rights movement and enabled it to win unprecedented victories. Moreover, it exercised a profound tactical and strategic influence over the entire course of social and political upheavals of the 1960s. The Sit-ins were the product of an independent black student movement which represented a radical break from previous civil rights organization and the established leadership of the Black community. With the sit-ins, Black students take the lead and chart new directions and strategies of their own.
Most of all, I suggest that the 1960 sit-ins by black college students have been credited with revitalizing a Civil Rights struggle and new leaders emerged and a new organization was created - the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC). As reviewed above, SNCC was more a movement than an organization, for no bureaucratized structure can contain their spirit, no printed program capture the fierce and elusive quality of their thinking. And while they have no famous leaders, they were clearly the front line of the Black assault on the moral comfort of white America. Thus, the Greensboro Sit-ins was a turning point of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. This is why that I concentrate on Greensboro Sit-ins and SNCC in the 1960s.
Until now, however, many studies have answered two vital questions: who joined the sit-ins and why? There were little attentions: what was the result of the sit-ins? The purpose of this paper is to examine the meaning of the Greensboro Sit-ins in the turbulent 60s.