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Nashville Sit-ins

By patricktaylor16
  • Nashville Sit in begins

    Nashville Sit in begins

    Students began setting up sit ins in stores and lunch counters with a goall of desegregation
  • Period: to

    Nashvile sit ins

  • First violent response (Big Saturday)

    A group of agitators attacked the sit ins, resulting in the arrest of eighty-one protesters

  • Standoff

    The commitee suggested the counters be divided into black and white sections, but the NCLC rejeccted the proposal, thus resulting a standoff.

  • Bombing of Alexander Looby

    Protesters has insert a bomb into Alexander Looby's home, destroying it. There was no casulties and no injuries

  • The March

    After the bombing, 4000 people marched to City Hall to confront Ben West about the escalating violence

  • The Agreement

    West believed that the lunch counters should be desegregated and thus an agreement was met, On that day, six downtown stores served black customers for the first time.

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