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And the Youth Shall Lead Us: Nashville, Tennesee
Teenagers join pantheon of Nashville youth who harnessed peaceful protests to urge change
On Thursday, Jade Fuller, Nya Collins, Zee Thomas, Kennedy Green, Emma Rose Smith and Mikayla Smith — ages 14 through 16 — claimed their place among generations of young people in Nashville who used peaceful protests to push social change.
The six teenagers organized the region's largest protest against racism and police brutality in recent memory.
Together, the organizers led tens of thousands of people on a miles-long march around the city, through brutal heat and pouring rain, with a simple message.
"Not one more."
With tears in their eyes, they chanted the names of several black men and women police have killed in recent years.
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Daniel Hambrick.
They marched, they said, to keep that list from growing, and to force changes within police departments.
Their work mirrored the famed student-led protests that desegregated Nashville lunch counters in the 1960s and made the city a hub of the civil rights movement.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/06/04/teens-lead-nashville-march-protest-george-floyd/3151774001/
On Thursday, Jade Fuller, Nya Collins, Zee Thomas, Kennedy Green, Emma Rose Smith and Mikayla Smith — ages 14 through 16 — claimed their place among generations of young people in Nashville who used peaceful protests to push social change.
The six teenagers organized the region's largest protest against racism and police brutality in recent memory.
Together, the organizers led tens of thousands of people on a miles-long march around the city, through brutal heat and pouring rain, with a simple message.
"Not one more."
With tears in their eyes, they chanted the names of several black men and women police have killed in recent years.
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Daniel Hambrick.
They marched, they said, to keep that list from growing, and to force changes within police departments.
Their work mirrored the famed student-led protests that desegregated Nashville lunch counters in the 1960s and made the city a hub of the civil rights movement.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/06/04/teens-lead-nashville-march-protest-george-floyd/3151774001/
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