selma, birmingham and montgomery, but the incubator of it all was in nashville, tennessee, where james lawsoneaching his classes on nonviolence and teaching people like john lewis and james bevel and diane nash. how to not swing back if somebody hits you in the head with a nightstick. >> we actually practiced sitting in. some took the role of students who were sitting at a lunch counter and others took the role of white thugs. we were practicing how to remain non-violent even in the face of violence. >> there had been other sit-ins in those early months of 1960, but no one is centrally organizing or coordinating this like the student group from nashville. >> it was on february the 13th. and we had the very first sit-in in nashville. i took my seat at the counter. i asked the waitress for a hamburger and a coke. >> the students sit down at the lunch counter asking to be served, knowing full well that it's against the law. >> we were prepared to be arrested and go to jail and if necessary, stay in jail. >> it was a moving feeling within me that i was sitting there demanding a god-given right. i

james is going home to cleveland. reaction to this big decision. >>> good afternoon. i'm pat lawson. >> i'm jim hanley. first today, a stark reminder that anyone can be the target of a crime. a man pretending to be a cable worker got inside a d.c. couple's home and took their property. the victims are the parents of d.c. councilmember and mayoral candidate muriel bowser. this happened on south 7th street near decater. police just released a surveillance video of the suspect. investigators tell us a man walked up to the home of joseph and joan, range the doorbell. he said he was there to upgrade the signal on a pole and reboot the tvs in their house. once inside the man walked around. after he was gone the couple noticed their two cell phones were missing. >> they are shaken up, of course, and they're mad, but they're like me, very grateful for the rapid response of mpd and the concern of a lot of neighbors. >> looks like her parents were not the only victims. police believe the same man posed as a cable worker to enter a house in the northeast the very same day. >>> a hazardous spill near a popular d.c