- Women and children, members of the Queens Jamaica chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), picketed a New York City Woolworth’s to show their support for the Southern sit-in movement begun in Greensboro, North Carolina in February 1960 to protest segregation in chain stores. In the days and months which followed the sit-in at a Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter, similar non-violent protests occurred across the country. They attracted African Americans and whites, students and professors, workers and the unemployed. Children, often boycotting segregated school systems, joined women on the picket lines. Women vital to the sit-in and subsequent jail-in/jail-no-bail actions included Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Annie Jackson, Jane Stembridge, Ruby Doris Stewart, Mary King, and Anne Moody.
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