HIST 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter documentary: Lunch Counter, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Major Force
30 Oct 2018
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Greensburough, nc four black college students sat down at a whites only lunch counter and refused to leave. This sit in was a challenge to southern traditions. The students refused to fight back and threatened the established order of cities in the south. Nashville promoted itself as the athens of the south but for. 70,000 black residents it was still the segregated south. A generation that had grown up with segregation was about to demand a change. Nashville"s four black colleges attracted people from across the country. Students were drawn to activists jim lawson and his non- violent actions. Workshops in non-violence made the difference - how to take the blows and will respond with a sense of dignity. The first step would be to have a sit in at the lunch counters downtown. People did not take sit ins seriously at the beginning because they thought that they were just agitators.
