Nashville Christian Leadership Council

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The Nashville Christian Leadership Council was a civil rights organization in Nashville, Tennessee, that played a key role in coordinating nonviolent protests and desegregation efforts during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Nashville Christian Leadership Council canonical 1

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instanceOf civil rights organization
nonprofit organization
activity coordination of nonviolent protests
desegregation efforts
aim end racial segregation in Nashville
secure equal rights for African Americans
basedIn Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
surface form: Nashville, Tennessee
collaboratedWith Nashville sit-ins
surface form: Nashville Student Movement

Southern Christian Leadership Conference
country United States of America
surface form: United States
focus civil rights
racial desegregation
social justice
ideology nonviolence
inspiredBy Christian social ethics
Gandhian nonviolence
locationOfActivity Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
surface form: Nashville, Tennessee
movement American civil rights movement
surface form: Civil Rights Movement
notableFor role in Nashville sit-in campaign
training student activists in nonviolent direct action
opposed Jim Crow laws in Nashville
racial segregation in public facilities
partOf American civil rights organizations network
religiousOrientation Christian
strategy boycotts
mass meetings
nonviolent direct action
sit-ins
timePeriod 1950s
1960s

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Nashville sit-ins organizedBy Nashville Christian Leadership Council