The Nashville Sit-Ins were among the earliest non-violent direct action campaigns that targeted Southern racial segregation in the 1960s. The sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, sought to desegregate downtown lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. The protests were coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council (NCLC), primarily consisting of students from Fisk University, Baptist Theological Seminary, and Tennessee State University. Diane Nash and John Lewis, who were both students at Fisk University, emerged as the major leaders of the local movement.
On February 13, 1960, twelve days after the Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins began, Nashville college students entered Kress (now K-Mart), Woolworth’s, and McClellan stores at 12:40 p.m. After making their purchases, the students sat down at the lunch counters. Store owners initially refused to serve the students and closed the counters, claiming it was their “moral right” to determine whom they would or would not serve. The students continued the sit-ins over the next three months, expanding their targets to include lunch counters at the Greyhound and Trailways bus terminals, Grant’s Variety Store, Walgreens Drugstore, and major Nashville department stores, Cain-Sloan and Harvey.
The first violent response to the protests came on February 27, which James Lawson, Jr., another protest leader called “big Saturday.” The protesters that day were attacked by a white group opposing desegregation. The police arrested eighty-one protesters but none of the attackers. Those arrested were found guilty of disorderly conduct. They all decided to serve time in jail rather than pay fines.
As racial tension grew in Nashville, Mayor Ben West appointed a biracial committee to investigate segregation in the city. Despite the committee’s numerous attempts at a compromise, the students declared that they would accept nothing less than the acknowledgement of their rights to sit at the store lunch counters along with white customers. On April 5, the committee suggested that the counters be divided into black and white sections. The NCLC and the Nashville Student Movement rejected the proposal, arguing that segregation of the counters was no better than black exclusion from them.
On April 19, a bomb destroyed the home of Z. Alexander Looby, the defense attorney representing many of the protesters. The bombing of Lobby’s home triggered a mass march to city hall where 2,500 protesters demanded answers from Mayor West. Diane Nash pointedly asked Mayor West if it was wrong for a citizen of Nashville to discriminate against his fellow citizens because of his race or skin color. The mayor admitted that it was wrong, giving the students an important symbolic victory in their campaign. Nash then asked the mayor if the lunch counters in Nashville should be desegregated. They mayor said they should.
After weeks of secret negotiations between merchants and protest leaders, an agreement was finally reached during the first week of May. On May 10, six downtown stores opened their lunch counters to black customers for the first time; the customers arrived in groups of two or three during the afternoon and were served without incident. With that agreement, Nashville became the first major southern city to begin desegregating public facilities. The Nashville campaign became a model for other civil rights protests in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Always worked backbreaking, dog shit, minimum wage jobs my whole life. Customer service or food service, or manual labor. Always put up with backstabbing co-workers, feudal lord wannabe managers, know-nothing ass bosses. Lucked into a remote job a few years ago making more than I've ever made. Finally got health insurance and was able to get massive amounts of work on my teeth done and doctor checkups. Able to actually exist without thinking about money or survival constantly.
I don't do shit. Was informed today I'm getting a $1k bonus for going "above and beyond".
All this shit makes me wanna cry, be angry, mourn for what a futile fucking exercise it all was in my teens and 20's. All this bullshit I put up with. Literally digging in the trash for food because I couldn't afford to eat, dropping all the way down to 115lbs and the only clothing that would fit me was literal children clothing. Putting up with abuse from managers and customers, having anxiety attacks due to stressful work situations. All that shit to be rewarded with $1k as a bonus at a job where I sit on my ass and go "Nothing on my end" on Teams once a week. Money that would have literally changed my life's trajectory a decade ago. Man. Every year I'm alive fills me with more conviction for my beliefs. I'm still that same kid from a decade ago. Two decades ago. Still angry. The money hasn't lessened it, it's made it brighter. Everybody should have the luxury of what I'm afforded now. No one should have to put up with this system's bullshit.
Sorry for sincereposting. Just posting this here because..i don't know why tbh. Maybe other folks have found themselves in a similar situation.
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Releasing the x-files because Obama upstaged him
primarycolormaxxing and dripmogging to cortisol spike the greyscalecels
I think all those harpsichord guys would be (musically) more interested in an electric guitar than a modern piano.
I've come to the realization that even using something like deepseek is wasting water so now I'm gonna stop and look into every option I can to turn off this shit in other stuff too. Part of me feels like I'm giving up something big but it's more like I'm gonna be regaining something I had before this shit came out and that's looking for things on my own
Whoever wrote e33 is clearly a riona = ultimecia truther and believed she wants to compress all of time to that 1 moment with squall
I have an idea for a really irritating video game that I think would still be fun if taken as a puzzle game. Basically most of what your character would do is operate terminals that move things around but the controls for your controller, the terminals and the objects you are manipulating on the terminals are all super confusing in terminology. The instructions will be done by Paul Eiding doing his Colonel Campbell voice and there will be no subtitles. So a normal set of tutorial instructions would sound like this "That's container terminal B, press A to activate the terminal, once activated move the cursor to the B button on the B terminal and press the A button. To exit the B terminal press the B button and move cursor to the B button on the B terminal and then press the A Button. To activate the options for the B terminal you can use the R trigger to press select on the B terminal, use select to scroll through your options and A to trigger the option you wish to select. Select the R trigger on terminal B and press A to exit the option selection menu. Terminal B controls canisters A, B and Y. To select canister A, hold Y to enter select mode, press select to to select a canister, you can press B and then use the cursor to press B with the A button to exit selection, release Y and press A to select canister A. Do the same for Y. To select canisterB select the B button on Terminal B using the A button..."
Holy fuck, sometimes good things srill happen in this dark world. William Shatner is putting out a new album. It's all metal covers
I AM STUPENDOUSLY PROUD OF MY GIGANTIC POWERFUL YET TECH BARBARIC BRAIN for figuring out how to move a few files from my C drive to drives with more space AND connecting them via command prompt mklinking them with both a /D and /J thingy. I have no idea what I actually did, but everything is working exactly like it was before I did the move, but with the added benefit of having a shitton more space on my C drive!
: “Fuck that woke stuff! It alienates the working class when you talk about it, class only!”Keeping some bourgeois hierarchies is what MAKES a ruling class, fuckass.
