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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Civil rights leaders have helped kick off the reopening of a famed site of civil rights sit-ins in 1960, the Woolworth building in downtown Nashville, as a restaurant.

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Woolworth building in downtown Nashville, where black civil rights leaders once defiantly sat at a segregated lunch counter that wouldn't serve them, will soon ...

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.