Studienarbeit vom Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 2, Universität Hamburg, Veranstaltung: American Civil Rights Movement, Sprache: Deutsch.

Abstract: In March 1958, a pacifistic group named "The Fellowship of Reconciliation," which had provided most of CORE's early leaders, sent James Lawson to Nashville to lead a workshop in non-violence for African-American activists. A year later, as a divinity student at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, Lawson attracted a small but morally charged group of young men and women from the black colleges to his regular training sessions in non-violent protest. In the fall of 1959, this Nashville student group staged test sit-ins at segregated city restaurants and lunch counters. They stayed just long enough to draw refusals of service, but they failed to change management policy or to draft.