Nashville Sit-in - February 13
Civil Rights Learning
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Today is Kiss Day, Cheddar Day, Crab Rangoon Day, Tortellini Day, and World Radio Day.
Black History Month Resource of the Day: Bayard Rustin
- Who Designed the March on Washington
- Brother Outsider - Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony
- Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
- For Jobs and Freedom
- Bayard Rustin Street Dedication
- Spectrum: Bayard Rustin
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Nashville Sit-ins
ON THIS DATE
- 1542 - England's King Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is executed for adultery.
- 1635 - Boston Public Latin School, the first public school in what is now the U.S., is founded.
- 1914 - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is founded.
- 1920 - The League of Nations recognizes the neutrality of Switzerland.
- 1960 - Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 2000 - Charles Schulz's final "Peanuts" comic strip runs in Sunday newspapers, one day after his death.
- 1891 - Painter Grant Wood
- 1923 - Test pilot Chuck Yeager
- 1944 - Actor Stockard Channing
- 1950 - English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer - LISTEN- The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy v. the Red Baron - LISTEN
- Tony Awards - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown - LISTEN
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - John Lewis: Get in the WayThe Nashville Sit-Ins (3:33) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Diane Nash and the Sit-Ins (5:59) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - Teach with Movies - A Force More Powerful Lesson - DO
- Grades 7-12 - Black Past - Nashville Sit-ins - READ
- Grades 7-12 - The Civil Rights Digital Library - Sit-ins: Nashville, Tenn. (1:07) - READ, VIEW, LISTEN
- Grades 7-12 - Tennessee Encyclopedia - Nashville Sit-ins - READ
- Grades 7-12 - Nashville Student Movement - SNCC Digital Gateway - READ
- Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee (2:01) - VIEW
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