This week is the anniversary of the Nashville Sit-Ins, a nonviolent campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in Nashville, Tenn. Months o
f demonstrations forced downtown stores to begin serving black customers at their lunch counters for the first time.
This photo by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law shows students sitting in to be served at Walgreen's on February 20, 1960. Photo by Jimmy Ellis, The Tennessean.
![This week marks the anniversary of the Nashville Sit-Ins, a nonviolent campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in Nashville, Tenn. It took months of demonstrations before downtown stores began serving black customers at their lunch counters for the first time.
In this photo, shared by the @[115364585711:274:Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law], students seek to be served at Walgreen's on February 20, 1960. Photo by Jimmy Ellis, The Tennessean.
Just a reminder that some Americans had to fight for the rights many of us take for granted every day. — DH Stone](http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s480x480/32156_556183454399973_1799442144_n.jpg)
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