Matthew Walker, Peggy Alexander, Diane Nash and Stanley Hemphill eat lunch at the previously segregated counter of the Post House restaurant in the Greyhound bus terminal (crmvet.org)
The Nashville screening of More Than a Month at the Nashville Public Library involved a walking tour of sit-in locations. Allison Inman, National Engagement Consultant of ITVS Community Cinema, gives a rundown of how the event unfolded in Nashville, TN.
From a crucial role in the Freedom Rides to the largest sit-in movement to desegregate lunch counters, Nashville was central to the civil rights movement of the early 1960s. Yet Nashville is the only major Southern city without a substantial outdoor monument to honor local civil rights struggles.