It resulted in desegregation of a lunch counter. The Greensboro sit-in was not the first of the sit-ins, but helped to increase the national sentiment of reversing desegregation and a majority of the Woolworth's became desegregated, and this sit-in attracted lots of media attention and this started many sit-in's by students across the country. The lunch counter where the sit-in took place is now part of the Smithsonian National Museum.
States' Rights refers To the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power. In the Civil War era, this struggle focused heavily on the institution of slavery and whether the federal government had the right to regulate or even abolish slavery within an individual state.
