Students Demand Action organizers estimate that 1,000 of the 7,000 attendees were Vanderbilt students, and Chancellor Daniel Diermeier reaffirmed university support of students’ right to protest in a community vigil on April 4.
turning this into such a unique situation? just an extraordinary situation that we re seeing on the floor of the tennessee house and the waves the ramifications that we could see all across the country. glad and the waves the ramifications that we could see all across the country. glad absolutely is a force. we do not know if this one shooting will bring about change obviously have hit. if history is prologue, it will not after the sandy hook shooting as we covered congress that debate we surely thought there would be some action. there was not, but we do see as audie was saying a different movement. we see engaged young voters across the country and we certainly see them there today in tennessee, and if you bring in, you know historical thought, you know, just some six decades ago, the nashville student movement also a profound moment in the civil rights movement, right there in nashville with john lewis,
with james lawson, and marion barry, nonviolence for the national sit-in movement so justin is really following in the footsteps of those great people, and i couldn t be prouder of my young brother. britney, one of the things i definitely noted is a generational difference. in this state. it was a state where the klan was founded. it was also the place where the nashville student movement, as mark was talking about, was founded. there s a lot of history here. obviously, memphis, tennessee, has its own dark history in had civil right movement i think about that and the nashville student movement in particular there were members, there are other black members in that body, but they re a generation older than beyond mark thompson. they re a generation older and there was a lot of talk about grace. like, we know the young people got a little bit excited we know they had different methods that were a little bit loud, but let s have grace for
Thousands of people rallied outside Tennessee’s capitol building on Monday demanding stronger gun laws, while inside Republican leaders largely avoided talk of new restrictions on firearms.