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NASHVILLE CITY HALL
Students from Fisk University, along with white and black students from other Nashville area colleges, mounted a sit-in campaign to end racial segregation in Nashville. The white leadership resisted. Tension grew as more and more students began participating in the citywide protest. To draw attention to their cause, the students marched to the Court House and City Hall building in Nashville. |
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At the end of their protest march, the college students surged up these steps and past the fountain to the front of Nashville City Hall. |
| On the front steps of City Hall, the
protesting students confronted Nashville Mayor Ben West.
Diane Nash, a student at Fisk, asked Mayor West if he believed racial segregation was morally right. |
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This plaque on Nashville
City Hall commemorates what happened next.
Mayor West replied to Diane Nash that he believed racial segregation was morally wrong. White resistance to the college student sit-in demonstrators ended quickly. Public accommodations in Nashville were racially integrated. |