sit-inner

plural sit-inners

1. A nonviolent protester who participates in a sit-in.

   I wish you had commended the Negro sit-inner and demonstrators for their sublime courage.

   1963, Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

   2 more examples

   The interview schedule included two questions asking sit-inners for their perceptions of what their college administrators and professors thought about what they were doing.

   1967, John M. Orbell, “Protest Participation among Southern Negro College Students”, in The American Political Science Review, volume 61, number 2, page 448

   The equation of student and sit-inner on a wide scale was in part the result of strategic framing efforts by representatives of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

   1998, Francesca Polletta, ““It Was like a Fever ...” Narrative and Identity in Social Protest”, in Social Problems, volume 45, number 2, page 145