Chapel Hill Nine

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/chapel-hill-nine

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the date of protest?February 28, 1960
2. What is the location of protest?Hospital lunch counter, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
3. Why did the students sit at the hospital lunch counter?They wanted to stop the unfair rule that kept Black people from eating there and to show that segregation was wrong.
4. How did the sit-in help the Civil Rights Movement?Their peaceful protest drew local and national media attention, putting pressure on the hospital and community to change the segregation rules.

Segregation: The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or institution, often mandated by law.
Sit-in: A form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
Civil Rights Movement: A decades-long struggle by African Americans and their allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement, and segregation in the United States.
Nonviolent Direct Action: A method of achieving social change that involves symbolic public acts of opposition without resorting to violence.