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The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a protest to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The sit-in campaign, coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council, was notable for its early success and its emphasis on ...
The Nashville Student Movement was an organization that challenged racial segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil Rights Movement. It was created during workshops in nonviolence taught by James Lawson at the Clark Memorial United Methodist Church. The students from this organization initiated the Nashville sit-ins in 1960.
Nashville sit-ins. James Morris Lawson Jr. (September 22, 1928 – June 9, 2024) was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. [1] During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ...
Nash, 85, spoke to a crowd of roughly 300 people outside the steps to the Metro Courthouse where as a college student on April 19, 1960, she confronted Nashville's then-Mayor Ben West and asked if ...
Civil Rights leader Rev. James Lawson, second from right, speaks April 19, 2010 to people, including many participants in the Nashville sit-ins of the 60's, before a silent march from Jefferson ...
via Library of CongressOn April 19, we will commemorate—as well we should—the twenty-sixth anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. But April 19 is also the ...
Fred Harvey Jr. (1960–1988) Harveys was a department store chain best known for its original store in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The original Harveys department store was opened by Fred Harvey in 1942 at the corner of 6th Avenue North and Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The site was the former home of a post-Reconstruction ...
Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville); [1] the Freedom Riders, who ...