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On April 19, we will commemorate—as well we should—the twenty-sixth anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
But April 19 is also the anniversary of another consequential, albeit lesser known, bombing: On that date ina bomb went off at the how old is john nash of Alexander Looby, the Black lawyer representing students and other activists arrested in sit-ins aimed at integrating downtown Nashville. Looby and his family survived, but the bomb blew out windows at a nearby medical college. The sit-ins had been going on for several weeks. Leaders of the movement, brought together by now Rev. The early morning bombing led these leaders to immediately organize a march.
Within a few hours. Less than a month later, hod agreement to desegregate lunch counters was reached—the first in a city below the Mason-Dixon line. Martin Luther King Jr. Vivian, who would go on to play seminal roles in the Freedom Rides, Birmingham, and Selma and then create the model for Upward Boundhad moved to Nashville from Peoria, Illinois, with his wife and two young children in Byhe had graduated from seminary and was serving as pastor of the First Community Church.
With Rev. Called by his good friend Dr. Vivian, who passed away last July at 95, was also a wonderful writer. The following is an excerpt about the underappreciated Nashville Movement from the book.
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After forming NCLC, we determined that our efforts should be directed at desegregating downtown Nashville, beginning with the lunch counters. Why lunch counters? Blacks could shop in downtown stores, but we could not eat at their lunch counters. Eating is a basic need, right?
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So demonstrating—through nonviolent direct action—that such a basic need can be denied to a person because of his or her race provides a graphic illustration of injustice…. Here we simulated attempts to integrate venues that were segregated. Through these workshops we came to understand the philosophy behind the great religious imperatives so important in terms of understanding people.]
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