- Title: USA: CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTED IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
- Date: 29th April 1964
- Summary: 1. Demonstrators clapping and sitting in street 0.04 2. Man and woman demonstrator walk past police 0.06 3. Demonstrators standing and sitting in street 0.11 4. Police taking demonstrators away 0.14 5. Man crosses street and falls down 0.19 6. Police trying to take man away - he lying flat on back 0.27 7. Same man lying on b
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- Location: Nashville, Tennessee
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- Story Text:Demonstrators sat down in the street in front of segregated sandwich shops in downtown Nashville Tuesday (28 April) for the second successive day.
About 400 persons took part, most of them young people. Fourteen were arrested Tuesday, making a total of 24 arrests in two days. The statistics also include injuries to 23 people in the two days of demonstrations, including seven policemen hurt. The demonstrations were called not only to protest segregated eating places, but all what was called discrimination in employment and housing in Nashville.
Police called Tuesday's turnout more of a riot than a demonstration. Negroes charged police brutality.
Civil rights leaders say the demonstrations will continue until there is total integration in Nashville.
There has been a degree of integration in Nashville and until Monday (27 April) the city had been one of the quieter metropolitan centers in the South. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS - SOURCE TO BE VERIFIED
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