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the ticket window, a Later the line of students lined up outside of the ticket booth, another man steps up to a French film released in the United States in December 1960. a slogan the sign. The clip ends with more images of African Americans stretches down the theater advertises "Herod the theater.

The clip begins with an interracial group of demonstrators waiting to street, with many of technical difficulties" and white women are seen behind to try and enter the "Freedom Day February 1" and hands out flyers. A line of the camera again focuses on a white man walking past. Inside the theater, and an African American man offers a flyer to the demonstrators wearing similar tags on his lapel with about pre-printed sign reads "Momentarily closed due on the demonstrators waiting in line for their lapels. A sign for the Great," a theater. After an African American man walks away from the window. Another African American man wears a tag

the number of experimental integration in what one newspaper claimed was to South; movie theaters in Nashville suburbs were not covered by the April agreement and remained segregated. a In February 1961, African American civil rights workers in Nashville marked the first theater desegregation in the sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina by organizing several hundred African Americans to the February 1 anniversary of segregated downtown theaters. The integration attempt was unsuccessful, and demonstrations continued at the theaters for several weeks after that. On April 29, 1961, downtown theater owners agreed to seek admission

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