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Nashville’s Original Activists - Lunch Counter Sit-ins
March 17th, 2010
In 1960, mostly college students conducted lunch counter sit-ins at downtown Nashville establishments to segregate food service and business in general.
PBS.org says of the situation:
Southern cities maintain segregated public facilities — like movie theaters, hotels, and lunch counters in downtown stores. In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black college students stage the first sit-in at a white lunch counter. Activist Jim Lawson holds workshops in non-violent protest at Nashville’s Fisk University. He attracts people like college student Diane Nash and seminarians John Lewis and C. T. Vivian, and teaches non-violent direct action tactics adopted from Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, including peaceful resistance.
Studnents from Tennessee State and American Baptist College also participated.
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This March is the forty year anniversary of those sit-ins.
NPR did a short piece on the radio last month, prompted by Sarah Palins ridiculous comparison of the Tea Party “movement” to the Civil Rights Movement:
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On April 19th Rev. Jim Lawson will again be picking up the banner of non-violent protest in Nashville leading a march on April 19th. More to come on that in future.
Here’s some video about that time period.
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