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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    ISBN 978-0-8203-4326-6. Nashville Student Movement Archived March 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine – Civil Rights Movement Archive "America's First Sit-Down...
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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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    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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    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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    Civil Rights Movement Archive Sit-ins Spread Across the South ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive Nashville Student Movement ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive Dailey...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    replaced her. Diane Nash, the chairman of the Nashville Student Movement, helped organize the Nashville sit-ins, continued the Freedom Rides which protested...
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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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  • 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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    Northern Student Movement (NSM) was an American civil rights organization that drew inspiration from sit-ins and lunch counter protests led by students in the...
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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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    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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    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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    down black people in retaliation for that death and to suppress the labor movement. During the Tulsa race massacre, White was inadvertently deputized. One...
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  • Rodney N. Powell (category Nashville Student Movement)
    Norman Powell (born 1935). is a former civil rights leader in the Nashville Student Movement and an activist for LGBTQ rights. Born to Raymond and Norma Powell...
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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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    Los Angeles in 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee decided to cut ties with the mainstream civil rights movement. They argued that blacks...
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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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  • 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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  • The Children (book) (category Nashville Student Movement)
    Halberstam which chronicles the 1959–1962 Nashville Student Movement. Among the topics covered are the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Riders, the formation...
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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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    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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