PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Nashville businesses protested the sit-ins by closing their doors.
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Nashville businesses started serving African Americans at their lunch counters.
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Nashville schools forced students to end sitins and return to class.
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Nashville schools desegregated as a result of the sit-ins.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The plan continued successfully and the lunch counters were integrated without any further incidents of violence. Nashville thus became the first major city in the southern United States to begin desegregating its public facilities.
Detailed explanation-2: -Those arrested were found guilty of disorderly conduct. They all decided to serve time in jail rather than pay fines.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Nashville sit-in movement is widely regarded as one of the most successful and sustained student-directed sit-in campaigns of the Civil Rights movement. Contributing to its success was the leadership and organization provided by noted pacifist, James M. Lawson.
Detailed explanation-4: -The sit-in movement produced a new sense of pride and power for African Americans. By rising up on their own and achieving substantial success protesting against segregation in the society in which they lived, Blacks realized that they could change their communities with local coordinated action.