Sit-in

Under sit-in ( to German: sit ) is understood since the 1960s, a violent, especially by the international student movement and even today in the fight against racial discrimination and the like. Applied demonstration form. It was, however, already used in the 1930s by American workers as strike tactics.

Development

The first sit-in was of African-American students on February 1, 1960 in Greensboro (North Carolina) held in a restaurant in the Woolworth Group, which was reserved for whites. Quickly took the civil rights movement to the new form of sit-ins to protest in other restaurants in the South against racial discrimination. Martin Luther King organized the ' Birmingham Campaign ' (see here).

The first sit-in as a designated event in Germany was held at the University of Berlin on 22 June 1966. The students, the aim was therefore to gain by passive resistance heard and recognized as problematic structures and faculty to block. A sit-down strike was not uncommon in a teach- in on.

Sit-

The sit-in is a variant that has also been used in conflicts in the world of work and protest movements, such as the resistance against the nuclear arms since the 1970s.

Sit-down strike as a tactic in labor dispute

The sit-in ( sit-down strike ) was in the years 1933-1937 a widespread strike tactic among American workers. A large audience enjoyed the sit-ins 1936/37, at General Motors, with which the company was forced to recognize the autoworkers union and its representatives. Also in the European countries of the 20th century, workers have resorted to the tactics of sit-ins to the factory occupation in the second half.

Trivia

Nowadays sit-in is often used as Scheinanglizismus which denotes a cozy get-together at home.

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