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Aug 30, 2022, 5:51 PM

On April 19, 1960, the day of the Z. Alexander Looby bombing, as many as four thousand demonstrators marched down Jefferson Street toward city hall. In the first row are Rev. C. T. Vivian (left), Diane Nash of Fisk, and Bernard Lafayette of American Baptist Seminary. In the second row are Kenneth Frazier and Curtis Murphy of Tennessee A&I, and Rodney Powell of Meharry. Using his handkerchief in the third row is Rev. James Lawson. Photo by Jack Corn. Courtesy of The Tennessean

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