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    The Nashville Student Movement was an organization that challenged racial segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil Rights Movement. It was...
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    Diane Nash (category Nashville Student Movement)
    harassers. This movement was unique for the time in that it was led by and composed primarily of college students and young people. The Nashville sit-ins spread...
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  • counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The sit-in campaign, coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council...
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    James Lawson (activist) (category Nashville Student Movement)
    within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
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  • James Zwerg (category Nashville Student Movement)
    depledged." Zwerg participated in a one-semester student exchange program in January 1961 at Nashville's Fisk University, a predominantly black school....
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    James Bevel (category Nashville Student Movement)
    the Nashville Student Movement, which conducted the 1960 Nashville Lunch-Counter Sit-Ins, the 1961 Open Theater Movement, and recruited students to continue...
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    downtown Nashville by the Nashville Student Movement and Nashville Christian Leadership Council, and were part of a broader sit-in movement in the southeastern...
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    Hattie Cotton Elementary School bombing (category History of Nashville, Tennessee)
    elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee shortly after it admitted its first African American student in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The school is...
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  • neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee when 28-year-old Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man and former student of the school, killed...
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    Michael's Hall, a dormitory. Diane Nash, a Nashville college student who was a leader of the Nashville Student Movement and SNCC, believed that if Southern violence...
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    father was hesitant. Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days...
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    Bernard Lafayette (category Nashville Student Movement)
    Rights Movement. He played a leading role in early organizing of the Selma Voting Rights Movement; was a member of the Nashville Student Movement; and worked...
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    such as Diane Nash, James Bevel, and Bernard Lafayette in the Nashville Student Movement (1959–1962). Lewis was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders....
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    on the Nashville Student Movement Women's War Julius sip-in, LGBT protest inspired by the sit-in movement 1960s portal Civil rights movement portal Five...
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    Montgomery Improvement Association (Montgomery, Alabama) Nashville Student Movement (Nashville, Tennessee) Regional Council of Negro Leadership (Mississippi)...
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    John Lewis (category Nashville Student Movement)
    other civil rights activities as part of the Nashville Student Movement. The Nashville sit-in movement was responsible for the desegregation of lunch...
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    Freedom Rides Museum (category Civil rights movement museums)
    the Nashville Student Movement (and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and others were undeterred, and 21 young students, including...
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    rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee...
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    C. T. Vivian (category Nashville Student Movement)
    wrong. Many of the students who participated in the Nashville Student Movement soon took on major leadership roles in both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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    The Lily-White Movement was an anti-black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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    James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, and others who would create the Nashville Student Movement, Ralph Abernathy, John B. Thompson, and many others. A poor white...
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  • Penitentiary. May 17 – Nashville students, coordinated by Diane Nash, John Lewis, and James Bevel of the Nashville Student Movement, take up the Freedom...
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  • The Atlanta Student Movement was formed in February 1960 in Atlanta by students of the campuses Atlanta University Center (AUC). It was led by the Committee...
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    ride. Diane Nash and other members of the Nashville Student Movement and SNCC quickly recruited college students to restart the Freedom Ride where the first...
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    include: Civil rights movement portal Abolition of slavery timeline Civil rights movement (1896–1954) Civil Rights Movement Chicano Movement Civil and political...
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    Improvement Association NAACP Youth Council Nashville Student Movement Nation of Islam Northern Student Movement National Council of Negro Women National...
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    Marion Barry (category Nashville Student Movement)
    the civil rights movement, first as a member of the Nashville Student Movement and then serving as the first chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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    for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lyon was present at almost all of the major historical events during the Civil Rights Movement. He...
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  • American minister based in the South and a pioneer in the civil rights movement. He is best known as the pastor (1947–52) of the Dexter Avenue Baptist...
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    1930s, Muhammad formally established the Nation of Islam, a religious movement that originated under the leadership and teachings of Wallace Fard Muhammad...
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