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Most recently, Looby been defending many of the college students who sought to desegregate lunch counters in downtown Nashville by engaging in peaceful sit-ins.
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Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 19 Apr. 2024
Their experiences of harassment, beatings, and arrests dramatized the injustices of segregation in ways that began to shift public opinion about its legitimacy.
STRATEGY BEFORE TACTICS
The campaign to desegregate Nashville lunch counters was not reliant solely on lunch counter sit-ins, of course.
—Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2013
During the morning rush, two men walked in and pointed their guns toward the lunch counter.
—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
This historic downtown restaurant honors the original 1960s lunch counter where nine Black college students were arrested during a sit-in, becoming the first protestors to serve jail time during the Civil Rights Movement.
—Mckenzie Rankin, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
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Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 19 Apr. 2024
Their experiences of harassment, beatings, and arrests dramatized the injustices of segregation in ways that began to shift public opinion about its legitimacy.
STRATEGY BEFORE TACTICS
The campaign to desegregate Nashville lunch counters was not reliant solely on lunch counter sit-ins, of course.
—Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2013
During the morning rush, two men walked in and pointed their guns toward the lunch counter.
—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
This historic downtown restaurant honors the original 1960s lunch counter where nine Black college students were arrested during a sit-in, becoming the first protestors to serve jail time during the Civil Rights Movement.
—Mckenzie Rankin, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
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