NEGRO STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE IN DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE
Nashville, Tennessee (JFK+50) On May 14, 1963, Associated Press reports that "negro students...clashed with police and rock-throwing whites in a...two hour demonstration" here in Nashville last night.
The negro students are demanding desegregation of all public accommodations.
Nashville mayor Beverly Briley* "continued his efforts to reach a bi-racial accord and 'preserve the peace.'"
Police made six arrests and two people were hospitalized.
*Clifton Beverly Briley (1914-1980) was born in West Nashville, TN & graduated Cumberland University Law School in 1932. CBB served in the US Navy in WWII & as the 1st major of the newly consolidated Nashville-Davidson County metropolitan government.
He was mayor, a Democrat, from 1963 to 1975. Briley Parkway, a major Nashville thoroughfare, is named in his honor.
SOURCE
"Racial Fights Break Out In Downtown Nashville," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1963, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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