On Feb. 13 1960, students in Nashville, Tenn. started a non-violent movement to end racial segregation at lunch counters in drug stores. This is what the movement looked like.
Harold Lowe Jr. / The Tennessean
Students attempted to get served at the lunch counter of Walgreen's drugstore in downtown Nashville.
Jimmy Ellis / The Tennessean
Several white men attempt to drag some of the black students from the lunch counter. Police ended up arresting 73 students, most of them black.
Jimmy Ellis / The Tennessean
Jimmy Ellis / The Tennessean
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