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Nashville’s Freedom Riders: HBCU students risked all to end segregation - Wisconsin Examiner

Nashville’s Freedom Riders: HBCU students risked all to end segregation - Wisconsin Examiner

On Feb. 27, 1960, John Lewis, then a student at American Baptist College, joined other college students in Nashville as they sat down at the “whites only’’ lunch counter at Woolworth’s in the heart of downtown to begin their work integrating the city’s stores. Students at HBCUs, including Tennessee State University, Fisk University, Meharry Medical College. ...

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Fisk University, HBCU History, TSU, Tennessee State University, Nashville, HBCU, Meharry Medical College
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Material Type:
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Date Added to MERLOT:
March 8, 2021
Date Modified in MERLOT:
September 18, 2025
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Mikaela Wiley
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Grade School, Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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English
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