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Black college students in Nashville launch formal, full-scale sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters at Kress's, Woolworth's and McLellan's stores
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Riot during Chattanooga lunch counter sit-ins; several whites arrested.
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Black people begin sit-ins at white-only lunch counters in downtown Nashville in Feb. 1960.
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Nashville becomes is first major city to desegregate public facilities.
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Six Lane College students arrested for challenging segregated seating on buses in Jackson. Blacks launch bus boycott.
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For the first time, black people are allowed to eat at Greyhound Bus Terminal's lunch counter in Jackson.