The Nashville Sit-Ins were among the earliest non-violent direct action campaigns that targeted Southern racial segregation in the 1960s. The sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, sought to desegregate downtown lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. The protests were coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council (NCLC), primarily consisting of students from Fisk University, Baptist Theological Seminary, and Tennessee State University. Diane Nash and John Lewis, who were both students at Fisk University, emerged as the major leaders of the local movement.
On February 13, 1960, twelve days after the Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins began, Nashville college students entered Kress (now K-Mart), Woolworth’s, and McClellan stores at 12:40 p.m. After making their purchases, the students sat down at the lunch counters. Store owners initially refused to serve the students and closed the counters, claiming it was their “moral right” to determine whom they would or would not serve. The students continued the sit-ins over the next three months, expanding their targets to include lunch counters at the Greyhound and Trailways bus terminals, Grant’s Variety Store, Walgreens Drugstore, and major Nashville department stores, Cain-Sloan and Harvey.
The first violent response to the protests came on February 27, which James Lawson, Jr., another protest leader called “big Saturday.” The protesters that day were attacked by a white group opposing desegregation. The police arrested eighty-one protesters but none of the attackers. Those arrested were found guilty of disorderly conduct. They all decided to serve time in jail rather than pay fines.
As racial tension grew in Nashville, Mayor Ben West appointed a biracial committee to investigate segregation in the city. Despite the committee’s numerous attempts at a compromise, the students declared that they would accept nothing less than the acknowledgement of their rights to sit at the store lunch counters along with white customers. On April 5, the committee suggested that the counters be divided into black and white sections. The NCLC and the Nashville Student Movement rejected the proposal, arguing that segregation of the counters was no better than black exclusion from them.
On April 19, a bomb destroyed the home of Z. Alexander Looby, the defense attorney representing many of the protesters. The bombing of Lobby’s home triggered a mass march to city hall where 2,500 protesters demanded answers from Mayor West. Diane Nash pointedly asked Mayor West if it was wrong for a citizen of Nashville to discriminate against his fellow citizens because of his race or skin color. The mayor admitted that it was wrong, giving the students an important symbolic victory in their campaign. Nash then asked the mayor if the lunch counters in Nashville should be desegregated. They mayor said they should.
After weeks of secret negotiations between merchants and protest leaders, an agreement was finally reached during the first week of May. On May 10, six downtown stores opened their lunch counters to black customers for the first time; the customers arrived in groups of two or three during the afternoon and were served without incident. With that agreement, Nashville became the first major southern city to begin desegregating public facilities. The Nashville campaign became a model for other civil rights protests in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Really annoyed today with how modular synth enthusiasts gatekeep the entire hobby by lecturing everyone who dares to use behringer modules in their setups. Some asshole felt the need to tell me that it's kind of problematic of me to use a behringer Four LFO because it's ACTUALLY a clone of the xaoc batumi. First of all, yes I know; second of all, I'm not fucking paying 300€ for the literal exact same device when the behringer clone is like 60€ new. And lord have mercy if you have the audacity to get one of behringers clones of a Mutable Instruments module. No no no, you must track down one of these original MI modules that have been out of production for years and pay 5x the price for it (again, it's literally the exact same machine). idk and idc about behringer's business practices or whatever the fuck, but mf i have a mortgage to pay and I like modular synths, deal with it. I need to think of some good comebacks for whenever someone confronts me about this again...
It feels like a lot of hobbies have turned into who can buy the most expensive shit and the most amount. And there was always an element of this and an undercurrent but I swear most past times and hobbies even for casual people in it is just... buy a whole lotta stuff. Like books? You dont read em as a book hobby person, you buy a whole shitload of the most expensive books, limited edition reprint etc
I make nkise music and have met these guys and they also make noise music. It is absolutely absurd to get that into the technicalities of a synth to make ambient noise. I use a casio keyboard and a mixing board with a pedal chain.
Those dopes should understand that producing cheap clones of out-of-production gear is like... the reason for Behringer to exist.
People should celebrate and welcome others joining their hobby, but that would require being an adult. You're dealing with jealous children in adult bodies, fuck their bullshit. A cheap clone that affords someone the ability to pursue their creativity will always be the ideal, worth way more than a boutique module that only comes out from under the dust cover for clout chasing glamour shots but otherwise is never fuckin used. Motherfuckers keeping their shit like it's a museum piece. Fucking make some tunes, you gobshite. With that kind of emotional maturity I bet their art is just dogshit!
Keep jamming, comrade