Part A- Knowledge and understanding~

Almsost 60 years ago, a man by the name of James Lawson, became versed in the way of non-violence protest, after years of studying the peace methods of Mahatma Gandhi. Lawson decided to teach all he had learned from it to the black students of Fisk University in his non-violent protest workshops in a basement of an old church.

These students, along with Lawson, wished to desegregate the extremely racist and heavily segregated town of Nashville, Tennesse. Nashville, was segregated to the point where the black and white community almost never made contact. The lunchrooms and water fountains were segregated, the restaurants and the down town shopping district was also segregated. Many of the studens, who had come from different parts of Americca, had never experienced such harsh and explicit racism as there was in Nashville. …show more content…
The workshops also gave lessons on avoiding the natural impulse to fight back when attacked, or the instinct to run away when scared. These lessons were vital, as the students and Lawson planned to hold a sit-in at a near by lunchroom, where they knew they would be abused and attacked by the white aggressers, who would be shocked by the students presence. They knew that they had to look like the bigger more sensible person in the situation, so they turned the other cheek to their hecklers, did their homework, read books, and adheared to a strict dress