From Sit-Ins to 'Good Trouble,' Nashville's Dissent Fostered Change

When Robert F. Kennedy's plane touched down at Nashville's Municipal Airport, a 30-foot banner stretched across the lobby entrance.  It read, "Suddenly there's hope for America." The crush of the wall-to-wall crowd who had come to get a glimpse of Kennedy reinforced the intensity and the urgency of the times. It was March 21, 1968, and Kennedy — who five days earlier had announced his candidacy for president — was on his way to speak at Vanderbilt University's Impact symposium.