For the first time since hundreds of black college students began the sit-ins at Nashville's downtown drugstores, tempers flared. On Feb. 27, 1960, nearly 100 young African Americans, ...

The headline in the Nashville Tennessean read: “Negroes Served Without Incident: Downtown Lunch Counters Open to All.” Think about this: In May 1960—some 170 years after the ratification of ...

The 1960 Nashville sit-ins marked a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement, as determined and dedicated students ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn (WTVF) — It was February 13 1960 when a group of brave college students ended segregation at the lunch counter. The mission wasn't easy but they say it was worth it to help ...

The hecklers are all black, all veterans of the original Nashville sit-ins that rocked the segregated South's status quo in 1960: former Metro councilman Kwame Leo Lillard, Allen Cason Jr., and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The site of civil rights sit-ins in 1960, the Woolworth building in downtown Nashville, will reclaim its historic look as it becomes a soul food restaurant with live music.

The Nashville sit-ins continued into the spring. Then, after a bomb exploded on the property of NAACP civil rights attorney Z. Alexander Looby on April 19, 1960, thousands of protesters marched to ...

Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides, dies at 95 The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic ...

James Bevel, now also working for SCLC, screened an NBC documentary about the Nashville sit-ins for his Birmingham recruits, to show them how it was done. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy ...

Woolworth Woes: The Debate Over the Historic Site’s Current Use The landmark was the location of 1960s sit-ins. Now it’s emblematic of larger Nashville conversations.

The site of civil rights sit-ins in 1960, the Woolworth building in downtown Nashville, will reclaim its historic look as it becomes a soul food restaurant with live music.