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Photograph of a massive crowd of silent marchers, Nashville, Tennessee, 1960 April 19

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A photograph of a massive crowd of silent marchers at the Court House Square, Davidson County Courthouse, James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19, 1960. A crowd of over 3000 participants marched in silence from the campus of Tennessee A & I University to the office of Mayor Ben West at City Hall to protest the bombing of the home of civil rights attorney Z. Alexander Looby. Upon arriving at the Court House Square, students and leaders confronted Mayor Ben West about his viewpoints on lunch counter segregation. This was the first major step in desegregating public accommodations in Nashville. Forms part of the Nashville Banner Archives. 1 photograph: b & w; 8 x 10 in.
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Keywords

  1. Activists
  2. African Americans
  3. American
  4. Capital City
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  7. Civil Rights Leaders
  8. Civil Rights Movements
  9. Civil Rights Workers
  10. Court House Square (Nashville, Tenn.)
  11. Downtown Nashville
  12. History
  13. James Robertson Parkway (Nashville, Tenn.)
  14. La Fayette, Bernard
  15. Lawson, James M., 1928
  16. Nash, Diane, 1938
  17. Nashville
  18. Nashville (Tenn.)
  19. Protest Movements
  20. Public Square (Nashville, Tenn.)
  21. Race Relations
  22. Segregation
  23. Social Change
  24. Social Conditions
  25. Sources
  26. Southern States
  27. Student Protesters
  28. Suffrage
  29. Tennessee

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