Travis Loller
FILE - In this March 6, 2010, file photo, Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Bernard LaFayette, right, speaks to reporters as Martin Luther King III, left, looks on in Atlanta. LaFayette attended nonviolence workshops led by Rev. James Lawson during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith)
April 20, 2021 - 5:59 AM
NASHVILLE - On April 20, 1960, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood at a podium at Fisk University and said he had come to Nashville ânot to bring inspiration, but to gain inspiration from the great movement that has taken place in this community.â
Hundreds of students from Fisk and other historically Black colleges had been sitting down for weeks at whites-only downtown lunch counters. Many were jailed, and their attorneyâs home was bombed on April 19, prompting Kingâs visit.