sit-inner
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sit-inner (plural sit-inners)
- A nonviolent protester who participates in a sit-in.
- 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail:
- I wish you had commended the Negro sit-inner and demonstrators for their sublime courage.
- 1967, John M. Orbell, “Protest Participation among Southern Negro College Students”, in The American Political Science Review, volume 61, number 2, page 448:
- 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.
- 1998, Francesca Polletta, ““It Was like a Fever ...” Narrative and Identity in Social Protest”, in Social Problems, volume 45, number 2, page 145:
- 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.
References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.