American Experience: Partners of the Heart Breakthroughs:
Protest and Resistance  Kwame Lillard: video | transcript 1 of
4 next  We were looking for targets. You've got to understand
you've got these twenty year olds who can think they can change
the world. They need more targets. Get more oppression, more
racism to attack.  It was a hot July and me, Freddie, and Doctor
Walker's son were sitting in the student center office with
nothing to do and we said, "Let's go swimming." And let's go
swimming to the biggest, most prestigious, glamorous white
swimming pool in Nashville, the ones you can't even -- in a
pool, in a park that you can't even drive in except once a year,
which is on Christmas. Centennial Park was a park you could
drive in once a year when they put the glorious Nativity scenes
there. They allowed black folks to drive through it at about 10
miles an hour without stopping. You could view the Nativity
scene, the birth of Jesus, once a year for 10 minutes.  So I
said, "Let's go to that pool and inte