Nashville Sit-ins

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 Where did the Nashville sit-in take place?

 

- Nashville, TN

- Philips Drug Company

- Mccrory's

- Good Drug Company

- Arcade on 5th Avenue

- Kress's

- Woolsworth

- Mcclellan's

- W.T. Grants

- It started in Greensboro, NC

 

 

 

 

 Who were the people involved in the sit-in?

 

Thes Nashville Sit-ins were organized by mostly African-Americans but some whites also helped with the cause. The NCLC, Nashville Christian Leadership Council, founded by Reverend Kelly Smith, organized workshops to teach participaters how to act and do a non-violent type of demonstration. James Lawson studied principles of non-violent resistance.

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 What did the white people do to the African Americans?

 

- They knocked them off of stools

- They were going to set a bomb off in McCrory's

- They threw the blacks in jail for trespassing.

- A black man sat next to a white man and the white man beat the black man up.

- They hit and punched them.

- They knocked them on the floor.

- They closed counters so they couldn't protest.

- They also shut down the stores by 1 P.M so they could end the sit-in.

 

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news/live/body.asp?ID=library/civilrights/sitins/essay

 

Why were lunch counters chosen to hold the sit-ins?

 

They were chosen because they were:

- highly visible

- easily accessible

- proved injustice that blacks faced in the South

- stores that they protested at were segregated

- provided much more attention from the media

- did it at lunch counters because it was non- violent

- it was a powerful method to accomplish desegregation at lunch counters

 

 

When did the Nashville sit-ins occur?

 

 

-  Started a few weeks after Greensboro sit-in. 

-  Began on the day of Febuary 13, 1960

-  There were many small sit-ins that led up to the big sit-in and there were a few after.

-  On May 10th segregation ended at lunch counters.

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     Citations

1.  Negroes' Protest Spreads in South; Reaches to South Carolina Stores Amid Violence.  By Claud Sitton Special to the New York Times New York Times (1857-Current)  N.Y. Feb. 13, 1960

2.  "Nashville Sit- Ins." Answers.com. 7 Feb. 2008<http://www.answers.com/topic/nashville-sit-ins>

3.  "Lunch Counter Sit-Ins."  19. Feb. 2008 <http:afroamhistory.about.com/od/sitins/a/sitins.htm>

4.  "Sit- Ins. Nashville."  The Tennessee Enclcopedia of History Abnd Culture.  2002.  7 Feb. 2008. <tennesseeencyclopedia.net>.

5. Negro Cleric Sets Nonviolent AIMS;  Policy Stressed in Sitdown, Nashville Leader Says- Youth- Refuse Bail  By HARRISON E. SALISBURYSpecial to the New York Times. New York Times (1857- Currentfile).  New York, N.Y.: Mar 2, 1960 p. 28 (i page)