Significance in The American Civil Rights Movement
Integrating lunch counters in the Southern United States through the use of sit-in political protests in the 1960s was a major accomplishment of the Civil Rights Movement. These involved minority citizens and their supporters sitting at the lunch counter in areas designated for "whites only", insisting that they be allowed to purchase and be served cups of hot coffee.
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