Sit-In

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 56 min
Premiere: 1960. December 20.

Director: Robert M. Young
Starring: Chet Huntley John Lewis

SIT-IN (1960) is filmmaker Robert M. Young’ (Nothing But A aman, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez) seminal documentary on how the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Students of Fisk University desegregated the lunch counters in Nashville, TN.