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9 black students attend Little Rock Central High with U.S. Marshalls escorting them in and protecting them from angry mobs.
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124 students, mostly black, walked into the downtown stores of Woolworths, S. H. Kress & McClellan and asked to be served at the lunch counters. After the server rufused to serve them, they sat for 2 hours, and left without incident.
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Nashville student activists held the 4th sit-ins at these stores. Again, crowds o white youths gathered to taunt and harass the students, but this time police were not present.
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A crowd of more than 2000 people lines the streets surrounding the city courthouse to show support to the defendants.
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At 5:30 am, dynamite was thrown through a front window of Z. Alexander Looby's home in north Nashville. Loodby and his wife were not injured, but other damages were made to homes caused by the blast.
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Martin Luther King Jr. came to Nashville to speak at Fisk University. He praised the Nashville sit-in movement as "the best organized and the most disciplined in the Southland."
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Small, selected groups of African Americans wold order food at the downtown lunch counters on a day known in advance to the merchants.
