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Activists train in nonviolent tolerance to prepare for lunch counter sit- ins

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1. Activists train in nonviolent tolerance to prepare for lunch counter sit- ins
2. James Lawson - Training for Nonviolent Resistance ICNC - International Center on Nonviolent Conflict -"The Worst thing that happens is bombing... a boy or girl would wrap a stone or marble... and throw them... and it really hurt.... she walked into her english class and a bomb went whizzing by her ear... missed her and hit the wall. She was trembling and thought what can I do. She picked up the bomb and went back to the room and she smiled at the boy who threw it as she placed it on his desk. He turned a number of colors. She smiled at him. Students laughed nervously. The next english class, that boy greeted her at the door and said Good Morning Melba. He never again was found harassing her."
3. Jim Lawson Nonviolent Civil Rights Workshops Simulating Violent Reactions im Lawson, pioneering expert on nonviolence and teacher to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, led civil rights workshops simulating violent reactions of white people at lunch counters. This was to train the nonviolent resisters not to react with violence. Lawson also discusses the importance of discipline in nonviolent movements: "You cannot go on a demonstration with 25 people doing whatever they want to do. They have to have a common discipline… The difficulty with nonviolent people and efforts is that they don’t recognize the necessity of fierce discipline and training, and strategizing, and planning, and recruiting, and doing the kind of things you do to have a movement. That can’t happen spontaneously. It has to be done systematically." Lawson is the voice in the video, the facilitator of the workshop, and the person interviewed at the end. This clip taken from "A Force More Powerful", an excellent documentary on the history of nonviolent movements, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpBoH....
4. Nonviolent tolerance training in Petersburg Virginia.
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2. Nationwide protest against lunch counter segregation
3. Activists train in nonviolent tolerance to prepare for lunch counter sit- ins
5. Students line the lunch counter of a dime store for sit-in protest
6. Bertha Gilbert taken by police at lunch counter in Nashville
7. Activists getting taunted and harassed at sit in demonstration at Woolworths's Diner
8. Nonviolent tolerance training in Petersburg Virginia.
9. The Greensboro Four The Greensboro Four were four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All four were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. They were influenced by the nonviolent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, as well as the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in 1947.
10. 1960 Greensboro Sit-ins "The Greensboro Four were four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All four were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. They were influenced by the nonviolent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, as well as the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in 1947, in which interracial activists rode across the South in buses to test a recent Supreme Court decision banning segregation in interstate bus travel. The Greensboro Four, as they became known, had also been spurred to action by the brutal murder in 1955 of a young Black boy, Emmett Till, who had allegedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi store."