The sit-in was a civil rights protest against segregation in the South by African American students. The sit-ins demonstrated as a nonviolent protest of the civil rights movement. The sin-in resulted in the arrest of leaders in the South, but later they were released. The civil rights movement helped African Americans to break the pattern of segregation.
Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.