A Museum Emerges From the Site of North Carolina's First Sit-ins

Despite battles within the community and financial setbacks, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum opened to the public on Monday Feb. 1st in Greensboro North Carolina, in the same building where four black students sat in at a whites-only Woolworth 50 years prior.  This first of many sit-ins on February 1st, 1960 helped sparked a movement among African Americans across the country for nonviolent protest to the ugly Jim Crow laws of the era.

  The museum, which has kept the very counter and stools that the students sat on in tact, is a great victory for opponents of injustice everywhere.  What do readers think the impact of sit-ins like this were for civil rights movements to come?