The sit in started in 1860, but it started to get known in 1960. In 1960 there were three main businesses, and in these businesses they had something in common. That common thing was serving food at a lunch counter only for white people. What the African Americans did was they went in there sat at the lunch counters and just sat there waiting to order. Even though they don’t serve African Americans.
After what has happened the three used strategies. Those strategies were closing the counter whenever the African American came and opened it back up whenever they left, the white people would come to claim the seats, and people would put blankets or pillow on the seats. The effect of the white people doing that is the African Americans