USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -60 years ago, Nashville became the first city in the segregated South to integrate lunch counters.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a protest to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Nashville Sit-Ins were among the earliest non-violent direct action campaigns that targeted Southern racial segregation in the 1960s. The sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, sought to desegregate downtown lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.

Detailed explanation-4: -On May 10, six downtown stores opened their lunch counters to black customers for the first time; the customers arrived in groups of two or three during the afternoon and were served without incident. With that agreement, Nashville became the first major southern city to begin desegregating public facilities.

Detailed explanation-5: -Inspired by an impromptu sit-in by students in Greensboro, North Carolina, just two weeks earlier, these Nashville students followed suit in passive opposition that lasted nearly three months until Mayor Ben West heard the cry for integration on the courthouse steps.