Sit-In participants

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Published on March 3, 2020 -

Sit-In participants

We continue our look at Chattanooga's Lunch counter sit-ins during Black History month.

This time, the people who actually took part returned to Howard for a play depicting what they did.


Sit-In participants

The howard school re-created a piece of living history.

They staged a play about the lunch counter sit ins.

And some members of the howard class of 1960 got a chance to re-live their performance, decades after the protest.

News 12's david moore has another example of what's right with our schools.

Natural sound: the sit in movement was in nonviolent movement of the us civil rights era.

Although the first lunch counter sit-in began with just four participants, the attention paid to the protest created a movement that spread across the south in 1960 and 1961.

Natural sound: ricardo: tonight was absolutely phenomenal.

It was so incredible to have members of the 1960 class of howard high school here.

Natural sound: yes!

Yes!

Yes!

Ricardo to see this performance as our current students did a wren act meant of the city in on february 19, 1960 at woolworths.

Robert: it was no month long planning.

And most of the people who went down there they were afraid.

And you didn't know exactly what was going to happen.

As i said before our parents told us not to get involved!

Robert: it was no month long planning.

And most of the people who went down there they were afraid.

And you didn't know exactly what was going to happen.

As i said before our parents told us not to get involved!

Natural sound: we had about 10 rules to go by; no violence, no fighting, and we pretty much abided by all of those rules.

Rule number six, no loud talking.

Natural sound: when you did this how did you feel?

Will you know like i told you, they were all afraid hoping that nothing would happen.

You know there were a few incidents that happened there but nobody got killed.

Ricardo: they were overjoyed they were overjoyed to see the smiles on their faces to understand and to know that these students now know who they are.

Jamal: this has made me feel better about what i've done.

To see them come out here and support us knowing that we are actually... black people remember.

And knowing that what they did.

Because like what i said, i never knew that they did this until what... about a month ago.

Ricardo: i mean this is living history for chattanooga and for howard high school.

So nothing could be better, no textbook, no video, no movie could take the place of what these students experience tonight.

By having that class here.

Natural sound: we shall overcome someday.

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