• 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...
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    Civil Rights Digital Library. Sit-ins: Greensboro, North Carolina, Civil Rights Digital Library. Sit-ins: Nashville, Tennessee, Civil Rights Digital...
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  • The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store—now the International Civil Rights...
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    The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign or student sit-in movement, were a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North...
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    James Lawson (activist) (category Nashville Student Movement)
    activists launched the Nashville sit-ins to challenge segregation in downtown stores. In February 1960, following the lunch sit-ins by students at the Woolworth's...
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    Nashville sit-ins in 1960. They were regarded as the most disciplined and effective of the student movement participants during 1960. The Nashville Student...
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  • the 1960 Nashville sit-ins strategy of "Jail, No Bail", which lessened the huge financial burden civil rights groups were facing as the sit-in movement...
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    December 23, 2006. Allan M. Jalon (March 8, 2006). "A break-in to end all break-ins". Los Angeles Times. United States Congress 2002, p. 15235. Canedy, Dana...
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  • The Katz Drug Store sit-in was one of the first sit-ins during the civil rights movement, occurring between August 19 and August 21, 1958, in Oklahoma...
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  • roll as well as rhythm and blues artists. It was a center for the Nashville sit-ins in the 1960s, but the construction of Interstate 40 across the street...
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  • completing a 84-page long senior thesis titled "Spiritual Awakenings: The Nashville Sit - Ins, 1960." He received a master's degree in business administration...
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    After witnessing the power of song as a veteran of the sit-in movement in the Nashville sit-ins and as a field secretary for SNCC, Cordell Reagon was the...
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    John Lewis (category Nashville Student Movement)
    district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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  • Cain-Sloan (category Companies based in Nashville, Tennessee)
    was a target of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins. The store was co-founded by Paul Lowe Sloan, Pat Cain and John E. Cain in Nashville in 1903. The company merged...
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    Woolworth Company store in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960. Harris was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He grew up and attended...
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    Diane Nash (category Nashville Student Movement)
    and young people. The Nashville sit-ins spread to 69 cities across the United States. Though protests would continue in Nashville and across the South...
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    sit-ins at segregated restaurants in Nashville. These sit-ins inspired others throughout the country to initiate sit-ins to protest segregation at lunch counters...
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    wade-ins 1960–1963 New Year's Day March Sit-in movement Greensboro sit-ins Nashville sit-ins Atlanta sit-ins Savannah Protest Movement Greenville Eight...
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  • the movement for some time. Yet when Young and Andrew witnessed the Nashville Sit-Ins of 1960, they felt compelled to return to the South, moving back to...
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  • concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes." Nevertheless, the Justice...
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    wade-ins 1960–1963 New Year's Day March Sit-in movement Greensboro sit-ins Nashville sit-ins Atlanta sit-ins Savannah Protest Movement Greenville Eight...
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    Center and Museum February One Clarence Harris Lexington Woolworths Nashville sit-ins Family Frank Winfield Woolworth Barbara Hutton Poor Little Rich Girl...
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  • a Nashville civil rights lawyer, was active in the city's ongoing Nashville sit-in for integration of public facilities. May – Nashville sit-ins end...
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    March: Justice or Else Million Woman March Nashville sit-ins Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Royal Ice Cream sit-in Selma to Montgomery marches Silent Parade...
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    Black students the option of attending Hall. This new Blossom Plan did not sit well with the NAACP and, after failed negotiations with the school board...
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  • The Atlanta sit-ins were a series of sit-ins that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Occurring during the sit-in movement of the larger civil...
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    Birmingham campaign began on April 3, 1963, with coordinated marches and sit-ins against racism and racial segregation in Birmingham. The nonviolent campaign...
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  • John Sloan (businessman) (category Businesspeople from Nashville, Tennessee)
    Cain-Sloan, a department store in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1937 to 1970, including during the 1960 Nashville sit-ins. Sloan was born on June 28, 1904...
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    served on a committee chaired by Madison Sarratt to put an end to the Nashville sit-ins. Wright served on the National Commission for Libraries appointed...
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    wade-ins 1960–1963 New Year's Day March Sit-in movement Greensboro sit-ins Nashville sit-ins Atlanta sit-ins Savannah Protest Movement Greenville Eight...
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