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sit-ins

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1. A form of nonviolent protest, employed during the 1960s in the civil rights movement and later in the movement against the Vietnam War. In a sit-in, demonstrators occupy a place open to the public, such as a racially segregated (see segregation) lunch counter or bus station, and then refuse to leave. Sit-ins were designed to provoke arrest and thereby gain attention for the demonstrators' cause.

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The civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., defended such tactics as sit-ins in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

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Demonstrators in strategic industries like telecommunications and petrochemicals have carried out sit-ins over months of unpaid wages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The movement behind nationwide protests sweeping Morocco, the GenZ 212 youth collective, called Monday for "peaceful sit-ins" to push its demands for reforms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

Students at Sapienza University where she works are staging sit-ins at several faculties.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

Where students organize walkouts and sit-ins to fight for a better education.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

We do correspond quite regularly, the usual theme of Mvrna’s correspondence tending to urge me to participate in lie-ins and wade-ins and sit-ins and such.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole