The Nonviolent Sit-Ins That Desegregated Nashville’s Lunch Counters
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April 18, 2021, 5:03 AM·16 min read
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On April 19, we will commemorate as well we should the twenty-sixth anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. But April 19 is also the anniversary of another consequential, albeit lesser known, bombing: On that date in 1960, a bomb went off at the home of Alexander Looby, the Black lawyer representing students and other activists arrested in sit-ins aimed at integrating downtown Nashville. Looby and his family survived, but the bomb blew out 147 windows at a nearby medical college.
Charles Jessop is accused of murdering Clare Nash at her flat in Brickfields Avenue, Newmarket
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The former landlord of a man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend hid kitchen knives from his lodger as a preventative measure, a jury has heard.
Giving evidence at Ipswich Crown Court on Thursday, Sean Jackson, 29, told the jury how he moved kitchen knives to a top cupboard in his home at Bakers Row in Newmarket on December 30, 2019.
Charles Jessop, who rented a room from Mr Jackson, is accused of stabbing and strangling mother-of-two Clare Nash to death at her Newmarket flat on January 16, 2020.
Police launched a murder inquiry after the death of Clare Nash in Brickfields Avenue, Newmarket
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The former girlfriend of a man accused of murdering his subsequent partner has told a court he once throttled her in the street.
Naomi Goldsmith took the stand to give evidence in the trial of Charles Jessop at Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday.
Jessop, 29, is accused of stabbing and strangling mother-of-two Clare Nash to death at her flat in Brickfields Avenue, Newmarket, on January 16 last year.
A police cordon at the scene in Brickfields Avenue, Newmarket
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Jessop, of Bakers Row, Newmarket, denies murder.
Charles Jessop allegedly stabbed and strangled Suffolk mother-of-two Claire Nash to death in Newmarket after waiting for her to return home, an Ipswich Crown Court jury has heard.