Little rock desegregation & Nashville sit-in's

By Jnix12345678986

  • Melba Pattillo Beals is chossen to atttend little rock central high

  • Melba Pattillo Beals was chased away by a mob on the first day

  • the NAACP put a call out across the country for safe houses

  • excutive force showed itself

  • Melba Pattillo Beals has a price on her head for death

  • nashville black student sit-in begins

  • the Nashville student activists held a fourth sit-in at the Woolworths, McClellan, and Walgreens stores. Crowds of white youths again gathered in the stores to taunt and harass the demonstrators.

  • the first day of the trials, a crowd of more than 2000 people lined the streets surrounding the city courthouse to show their support for the defendants.

  • At 5:30 am dynamite was thrown through a front window of Z. Alexander Looby's home in north Nashville,[47] apparently in retaliation for his support of the demonstrators.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Nashville to speak at Fisk University.

  • six downtown stores opened their lunch counters to black customers for the first time.