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Nashville Sit-Ins
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Nashville Sit-Ins
A small group grew into a significant protest with over 80 students participating by the third day which gained substantial media attention and public notice. -
Nashville Sit-Ins
The first large-scale organized Sit-In was on February 13, 1960. At about 12:00 pm, 124 students, mostly black, walked downtown Woolworths, S. H. Kress, and McClellan, stores and asked to be seated at lunch counters. After the staff refused to serve them, they sat in the stores for two hours and left without incident. -
Nashville Sit-Ins
Baptist Minister's Conference of Nashville, representing 79 congregations, unanimously voted to support the student movement, thus throwing the weight of Nashville's black religious community behind the students. Local religious leaders called on people of good will to boycott downtown merchants who practiced segregation. Nashville's black community strongly supported the boycott, causing economic hardship for the merchants.