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Lewis, John – American Educator, 1998
Describes the Nashville (Tennessee) lunch-counter sit-ins in 1960, civil-rights demonstrations led by students, and the resultant boycott of downtown businesses by blacks and sympathetic, or uneasy, whites. Many participants in the Nashville sit-ins went on to larger roles in the civil-rights movement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Demonstrations (Civil)
