USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During sit-ins in Nashville in the spring of 1960, Nash and other members the Nashville Student Movement also sought to negotiate with restaurant owners to desegregate the lunch counters. A boycott of downtown stores by Black Nashville residents helped bring the white owners to the table.

Detailed explanation-2: -In February of 1960, Nash helped organize the Nashville Student Movement and Nashville’s first sit-in. Inspired by a similar demonstration in North Carolina, Nash and a group of black and white students sat down together at an all-white lunch counter, asked for food, and refused to leave when they were denied service.

Detailed explanation-3: -A co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and leader of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, 23-year-old Nash was the one guiding the new Freedom Riders on their journey to Birmingham, Alabama.

Detailed explanation-4: -Description: 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.