Diane Nash, center, leads a silent march of more than 3,000 people to Nashville's City Hall with fellow civil rights activist C.T. Vivian, left, on April 19, 1960, the day Nashville attorney J. Alexander Looby's home was firebombed and students at nearby Meharry Medical College were injured. The protesters, who had been conducting sit-ins at city lunch counters, met on the steps with then-Mayor Ben West to demand an end to injustice and violence in the city, and West agreed. (Archive ;hoto from The Tennesseean)
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