Martin Luther King Jr.’s arrest for sit in
MLK will be arrested along with some 280 students for participating in a student sit in the student sit in of 1960 started on February 1st 1960 when four black students from North Carolina A&T college sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Greensboro NC they purchased several items in the store before sitting at the counter reserved for white customers when a waitress asked him to leave they politely refused and then to their surprise they were not arrested the four students remain seated for almost an hour until the store closed well the following morning about two dozen students arrives at Woolworths at wars and sat at the lunch counter as well although not no confrontations occurred the second sitting attracted the local media by day three of the campaign the students formed these student executive committee for justice to coordinate protests the Greensboro protesters eventually agreed to the mayor's request to halt protest activities while city officials saw a just an honorable solution but then black students and other communities began to launch counter began to launch lunch counter protests of the counter protest begin to launch lunch counter protests of their own by the end of the month cities taking place at more than 30 locations in seven States and by the end of April over 50,000 students had participated nonviolence was a central component of the student lead demonstrations however many protesters were not met with peaceful responses from the public although protesters were routinely heckled and beaten by segregationists and arrested by police their determination was unyielding king wrote the key significance of the student movement lies in the fact from its inception everywhere it is combined direct action with nonviolence this quality has given it the extraordinary power and discipline which everything a person observes in October 1960 Atlanta student leaders convinced Dr king himself to participate in student sitting at Rich’s a local department store king and about 300 students were arrested students were later released with king remained in jail while Georgia officials determined whether his sit in arrest violated parole conditions king had received a month really rapid driving with his suspended license.