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August 19th, 2010 | 
Author: By John Barham
The spring semester of 1968 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, was a time of tumult and tragedy. As students, we were enlightened by such notable visitors to campus as John Kenneth Galbraith, Saul Alinsky, Robert Kennedy, Julian Bond and Eugene McCarthy. And then, on April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot down in Memphis.
A consequence of the death of Dr. King was an immediate nightly curfew in Nashville, where National Guard troops were quickly bivouacked around the renowned replica of the Parthenon in Centennial Park. It was no little shock for us to see tanks and APCs in the park, which was only three or four blocks from the university’s campus.
As the curfew went into its second night, it was apparent that it was being enforced only in the areas surrounding Fisk University and Tennessee State University; in other words, only African-American neighborhoods were being affected by the curfew.
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