1960 The "sit-in" era starts at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, when four blacks from a local college sit down and refuse to move. Soon blacks and white supporters are being trained in passive resistance techniques by the Congress of Racial Equality. Sit-ins spread to Nashville, Montgomery, and other cities. Before the year is over, lunch counters in Greensboro, San Antonio, and other places are desegregated. In Atlanta, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is formed to organize activities. Church kneel-ins and beach wade-ins soon join lunch counter and bus station sit-ins. Houston desegregates schools, but delay tactics stall progress in other parts of the South.