Massive crowd of silent marchers, Nashville, Tennessee, 1960 (107/141)

Massive crowd of silent marchers, Nashville, Tennessee, 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.

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