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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...