Nashville sit - ins By keiikeii Dec 24, 1896 Plessy vs. Fergeuson trials Feb 19, 1960 The first sit in Feb 27, 1960 Nashville student activists held the fourth sit-in at the Woolworths, McClellan, and Walgreens stores. Feb 29, 1960 the first day of the trials Apr 19, 1960 dynamite was thrown through a front window of Z. Alexander Looby's home in north Nashville May 10, 1960 Stores started to let black customers inside