Bartleby and Occupy and short hist of sit-ins

[Mark Kohut]

In a little book called "The Voices of Negro Protest in America'
by one Haywood Burns (w intro by john Hope Franklin), OUP
1963........
 
a footnote cites the story in 17th Century slave records of 'Tony' who
tried to carry out non-participation to the max, it seems....and that in 1875
a Negro staged a one-man sit-in at the Metropolitan Opera Hous in NYC..
 
& The Congress of Racial Equality was started with a sit-in at a Chicago
restaurant in 1942.....and in 1958 the Okla City NAACP staged sit-ins in 
Okla City but the major difference between all of these and sit-in of the
Greensboro Four in Feb 1960 (in a Woolworth's) is that the sit-ins grew
in number in 1960........
 
21 showed up the next day in Greensboro then some terrif stats on the growth
in estimated numbers and confirmed cities and states over the next months and years...
as participants---which grew to include mostly white Northerners in solidarity in the North (as well as
Southern involvement as we know)  took on being arrested and much worse of course...
 
This old book is very interesting in another way: sez the results are unclear because 
lotsa cases were still in the courts with the Supremes only affirming to that point
one 'free speeech' case 8-1 to that point in time.....
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