Woolworth Theatre

About this audio guide

This guide to the Woolworth Theatre in Nashville centers on the lunch-counter stool now displayed in its front window and the discipline that put students on stools just like it in nineteen sixty. It follows Reverend James Lawson's nonviolent training sessions, the rehearsed mock attacks that prepared Fisk, American Baptist College, and Tennessee A&I students for the real sit-ins, and a young John Lewis among those swept up that year. Best heard standing at the window, looking past your own reflection at the stool.