Another Sit-In
The story I found was very short so I will just type it out.
"As we were sitting in at McClellan's in Nashville, persons pulled Paul from his seat next to me and began hitting him roughly. I turned aside in shock, but was trained to do nothing."
"As we were sitting in at McClellan's in Nashville, persons pulled Paul from his seat next to me and began hitting him roughly. I turned aside in shock, but was trained to do nothing."
This story, though short connects to the other stories we've read. The first to the sit in at Woolworth's were there was much violence taking place. This story also had violence. This violence was an uncommon thing at a sit in. It was expected those who choose to do the sitting in. They, had he said, to do nothing. This was also mentioned by Martin Luther King Jr. in his writing Stride Toward Freedom. He says in this writing how he trains all the people he protests with not to react to violence and not to protest by using violence. He tells how this takes the focus off of the problem at hand. There are numerous testimonies just like this out there that prove how many people followed that to get was should have been theirs in the first place.
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