Sunday, May 3, 2026

Question: What Tennessee city became the first major Southern city to fully desegregate its downtown lunch counters in May 1960, following a disciplined nonviolent sit-in campaign?

Answer: Nashville. Lunch counters desegregated May 10, 1960—beating Greensboro’s July 25 desegregation by more than two months. MLK Jr. called Nashville’s the best-organized and most disciplined sit-in campaign in the South.