Nashville sit-ins

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civil rights protest nonviolent direct action campaign sit-in student protest

The Nashville sit-ins were a series of nonviolent student-led protests in 1960 that successfully desegregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee and became a key early campaign of the U.S. civil rights movement.

Aliases (1)

Easter 1960 economic boycott of downtown Nashville ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil rights protest → nonviolent direct action campaign → sit-in → student protest →
aim	desegregation of lunch counters in Nashville →
country	United States →
endTime	1960-05 →
faced	arrests of student protesters → physical violence against demonstrators →
hasCharacteristic	nonviolent → strategic use of mass arrests → student-led → well-organized →
influenced	Freedom Rides → later sit-in campaigns across the U.S. South →
inspiredBy	Gandhian philosophy → Montgomery bus boycott →
keyFigure	C. T. Vivian → Diane Nash → James Lawson → John Lewis → Kelly Miller Smith → Z. Alexander Looby →
ledTo	formation of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee →
location	Nashville, Tennessee NERFINISHED →
method	economic boycott of downtown businesses → nonviolent training workshops → sit-ins at segregated lunch counters →
movement	Gandhian nonviolence → nonviolent resistance →
notableEvent	April 1960 bombing of Z. Alexander Looby’s home and subsequent march to city hall → Easter 1960 economic boycott of downtown Nashville →
opposedBy	segregationist local officials in Nashville → white supremacist groups →
organizedBy	Bernard Lafayette → C. T. Vivian → Diane Nash → James Lawson → John Lewis → Kelly Miller Smith → Nashville Christian Leadership Council →
participant	students from American Baptist Theological Seminary → students from Fisk University → students from Meharry Medical College → students from Tennessee A&I State University →
partOf	African-American civil rights movement → civil rights movement →
result	desegregation of downtown Nashville lunch counters →
significance	key early campaign of the U.S. civil rights movement →
startTime	1960-02 →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Greensboro sit-ins →	inspired
Nashville sit-ins ("Easter 1960 economic boycott of downtown Nashville") →	notableEvent
Diane Nash →	participantIn