s Throughout the South, Negroes have adopted a non-violent protest tech- nique that has been dubbed the“sit- into combat discrimination at-lunch counters, cafeterias, libraries and beaches. The trend toward this type of protest got started on February J, when four Negro college students refused to move fram a Woolworth? lunch counter in Greensboro, when they were denied? service The action quickly spread? to lunch counters in more than 50 Southern towns, This led to jwade-ins4 al all-white beaches,) read ing at libraries/and kneel-ins> at racially segregated churches, Many Negra students have heen arrested for the protests, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has stepped in to defend quite a number of them. Among the highly respected people lending their assistance to provide lessons in non-violent protest for students in Greensboro are the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, George Simpkins, the N.A.A.CP. aide, and Len Holt of the Congress of Racial Equality. Sit-ins at Nashville, Tennessee, led to 76 arrests, but they have forced politicians and business- men to deal with the Negro community and a favorable decision is believed? to be near. wn Sit-ine, curing edge in a war on bias, Greensboro, N.C., 160 1. choine de magasins 2. refused 3.s'est propugde a, résistonce passive, debout dams Meow 5. résistance gessive, agenoaillds 6 on pense que.