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First Sit-In
The first large-scale organized sit-in. At 12:30pm, 124 students, most of them black, walked into the downtown Woolworth's, S. H. Kress, and McClellan stores. -
Fourth Sit-In
Nashville student activists held a fourth sit-in at the Woolworths, McClellan, and Walgreens stores. -
First Day of Trials
First day of the trials, a crowd of more than 2000 people lined the streets surrounding the city courthouse to show their support for the defendants. -
Choas broke out
At 5:30am dynamite was thrown through a front window of Z. Alexander Looby's home in north Nashville, apparently in retaliation for his support of the demonstrators. -
The start of a new beginning
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. Six downtown stores opened their lunch counters to black customers for the first time.