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Why the leaders of the civil rights movement used Nashville as a model to their nonviolent strategy

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They were nurtured in a pivotal emergency meeting at First Baptist Church Capitol Hill, with all who were there convinced that the very idea of America was up for grabs.

When the revolutionaries were ready, they attacked. But they didn’t fire guns, pull knives or throw punches.

They sat at lunch counters. They rode buses. They marched.

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