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Little Rock Nine
9 black students attend Little Rock Central High with U.S. Marshalls escorting them in and protecting them from angry mobs. -
Woolworths, S. H. Kress & McClellan Sit-in
124 students, mostly black, walked into the downtown stores of Woolworths, S. H. Kress & McClellan and asked to be served at the lunch counters. After the server rufused to serve them, they sat for 2 hours, and left without incident. -
Woolworths, McClellan, and Walgreens Sit-ins
Nashville student activists held the 4th sit-ins at these stores. Again, crowds o white youths gathered to taunt and harass the students, but this time police were not present. -
First Day of Trails
A crowd of more than 2000 people lines the streets surrounding the city courthouse to show support to the defendants. -
Looby Residence Bombing
At 5:30 am, dynamite was thrown through a front window of Z. Alexander Looby's home in north Nashville. Loodby and his wife were not injured, but other damages were made to homes caused by the blast. -
MLK at Fisk University
Martin Luther King Jr. came to Nashville to speak at Fisk University. He praised the Nashville sit-in movement as "the best organized and the most disciplined in the Southland." -
Desegregation
Small, selected groups of African Americans wold order food at the downtown lunch counters on a day known in advance to the merchants.
