Village club-goers imported SNCC sit-in tactics against building inspections.

Evidence

But this was a chilly winter night. Sometime after 2:00 a.m., a weary building inspector appeared to close the premises. Perhaps inspired by Chandler, a regular presence at civil rights protests, some thirty patrons employed a tactic introduced by SNCC less than a year before. More cops arrived at the Gaslight, followed by three police wagons but, unlike the sit-ins in North Carolina, there were no arrests. The sit-in morphed into a sleep-in and ultimately a snore-in. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 282

Categorization

• CANDY: The sit-in becoming a sleep-in then a snore-in is a genuinely funny, self-contained anecdote.
• QUESTION: How did SNCC tactics travel so fast into Village bohemia? Worth chasing the mechanics of that diffusion.
• XREF: The Gaslight false-alarm and sit-in echo the reader’s gentrification thesis — clubs policing themselves against officialdom.