Nashville sit-ins, 1960, and Diane Nash

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Year: 1960 · Places: Tennessee, Gulf Coast, South America, Africa

SUMMARYNashville sit-ins, 1960, and Diane Nash (Nov 8, 2026; TANASI line research)
RECORD (Tennessee Encyclopedia, "Sit-ins, Nashville," Linda T. Wynn)twelve days after Greensboro (Feb. 1) "Nashville's African American students launched their first full-scale sit-ins"; they "suffered verbal and physical abuse, arrests, fines, and incarceration"; "On April 19, an early morning bombing damaged the home of attorney Z. Alexander Looby"; "thousands of black and some white Americans marched to Nashville's City Hall"; "Mayor Ben West met the protesters and conceded to Diane Nash of Fisk University that he felt segregation was wrong"; "On May 10, 1960, Nashville became the first major city to begin desegregating its public facilities."
RECORD (Tennessee Encyclopedia, "Diane J. Nash," Linda T. Wynn)"born on May 15, 1938, in Chicago"; transferred from Howard to Fisk; one of the founding students of SNCC (April 1960); in May 1961 she "coordinated the Freedom Rides from Birmingham, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi."
PATTERNa bombing in the morning, a march by afternoon, a public admission from the mayor by evening
LENS (WW9)Young Gods: students did it
OPENNash's exact question to West on April 19 (not given word for word in sources opened; pull from the Nashville Tennessean, April 20, 1960); arrest counts. Connects: P871, P874.

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