 Downtown Greensboro Historic District is home to the location of what series of nonviolent protests in 1960
Downtown Greensboro Historic District:  The Woolworth's store is notable as the site of the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960. Greensboro sit-ins: The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Greensboro sit-ins