Join us on Wednesday, September 23rd, from 5:30 – 7:30 PM for an educational discussion examining the student-led lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the philosophy of nonviolent resistance, and Nashville’s pivotal role in the national Civil Rights Movement. Elliott Robinson of the Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library will moderate the conversation with Dr. Learotha Williams, Jr., scholar of African American, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Public History at Tennessee State University, and Dr. Taure Brown, Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.