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FEB 13
124 students, most of them black, walked into the downtown stores and asked to be served at the lunch counters. The staff refused to serve them, and they sat in the stores for two hours then left without incident -
FEB 27
Nashville student activists held a fourth sit-in at the stores. Crowds of white youths again gathered to taunt and harass the demonstrators. This time, police were not present. Eventually, several of the sit-in demonstrators were attacked. -
FEB 29
a crowd of more than 2000 people lined the streets surrounding the city courthouse to show their support for the defendants. A group of 13 lawyers represented the students. -
APR 19
in retaliation for his support of the demonstrators dynamite was thrown through a front window of Z. Alexander Looby's home in north Nashville, Although the explosion almost destroyed the house, Looby and his wife were not injured. -
APR 20
Martin Luther King, Jr. came to speak at Fisk University. During the speech, he praised the Nashville sit-in movement as "the best organized and the most disciplined in the Southland." -
May 1960
According to the agreement, small, selected groups of African Americans would order food at the downtown lunch counters on a day known in advance to the merchants. The merchants would prepare their employees for the event and instruct them to serve the customers without trouble On May 10th six stores opened counters to black costumers for the first time