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.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Nashville sit-ins canonical	4
Easter 1960 economic boycott of downtown Nashville	1
Nashville Student Movement	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 of America ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ surface form: Nashville, Tennessee
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 ⓘ Nashville sit-ins self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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	American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: African-American civil rights movement American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: 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 (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Greensboro sit-ins → inspired → Nashville sit-ins ⓘ

Diane Nash → participantIn → Nashville sit-ins ⓘ

Nashville sit-ins → notableEvent → Nashville sit-ins self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Easter 1960 economic boycott of downtown Nashville

Nashville Christian Leadership Council → collaboratedWith → Nashville sit-ins ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nashville Student Movement

James Lawson → participantIn → Nashville sit-ins ⓘ

C. T. Vivian → participatedIn → Nashville sit-ins ⓘ