Southern Negroes have won their greatest practical advances in one short year, not from any Supreme Court decision or federal intervention, but from the simple, peaceful protest of the sit-in. Last week Negro students marched in silent files in key cities across the South to celebrate the anniversary of the first lunch-counter sit-in movement in a Greensboro, N.C. five and ten—and the achievement of lunch-counter integration in at least 85 other Southern cities. But last week's marchers were anything but jubilant. The anniversary launched a fight for equality on another front: movie theaters.
In Atlanta, Ga., Nashville,...
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