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Lawson was an architect of Nashville's lunch counter sit-ins and helped launch a nationwide movement.—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 18 July 2024 Most recently, Looby been defending many of the college students who sought to desegregate lunch counters in downtown Nashville by engaging in peaceful sit-ins.—Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 19 Apr. 2024 Their experiences of harassment, beatings, and arrests dramatized the injustices of segregation in ways that began to shift public opinion about its legitimacy.
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The campaign to desegregate Nashville lunch counters was not reliant solely on lunch counter sit-ins, of course.—Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2013 During the morning rush, two men walked in and pointed their guns toward the lunch counter.—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lunch counter
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