Charleston sit-ins

Charleston sit-ins
Part of the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina
Date	April 1, 1960
Location	S.H. Kress lunch counter, 281 King Street, Charleston, South Carolina
Caused by	Racial segregation in public accommodations
Parties
students City of Charleston, South Carolina

The Charleston sit-ins were a series of peaceful protests during the sit-in movement of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in Charleston, South Carolina. Unlike at other sit-ins in the South where the protestors were mainly college students, the protestors in Charleston were mainly high school students. The earliest such protest was a sit-in at a lunch counter by Charleston high school students, but similar protests continued thereafter.