The focus of the video documentary "Ain't Scared of your Jails" is on the courage shown by thousands of African Americans who joined the ranks of the civil rights movement and given a new direction. By 1960, lunch counter sit-ins spread throughout the South. By 1961, Freedom Rides were taking place in every Southern state. These rides consisted of African Americans switching seats with white Americans on public transportation buses. On public buses, whites sat in the back and blacks in the front. Many freedom riders faced violence and braved death threats as they tried to stop segregation by participating in these rides. On interstate bus trips on the Mason-Dixon Line, the growing movement toward racial equality influenced the 1960 presidential campaign. Federal rights and state rights became an issue. One of the first documented incidents of sit-ins in the civil rights movement occurred on February 1, 1960, in Nashville, Tennessee. Four African-Americans from the college sat at the lunch counter and refused to leave. During this time, blacks were not allowed to sit at some lunch counters reserved for whites. These black students sat at the white lunch counter and refused to leave. This sit-in was a direct challenge to Southern tradition. Trained in nonviolence, the students refused to fight back and were subsequently arrested by Nashville police. Students were drawn to activist Jim Lossen and his nonviolence workshops. The nonviolent workshops were training courses on how to put nonviolent protests into practice. John Lewis, Angela Butler and Diane Nash led students in the first sit-in at the lunch counter. Diane Nash said, "We were scared to death because we didn't know what was going to happen." For two weeks there were no incidents of violence. Everything changed on February 27, 1960, when whites began beating students. Nashville police did nothing to protect black students. The students remained true to their nonviolence training and refused to fight back. When the police vans arrived, more than eighty protesters were arrested and summarily charged with disorderly conduct. The protesters knew they would be arrested. So they planned that as soon as the first wave of protesters was arrested, a second wave of protesters would take its place. If and when the second wave of protesters were arrested and removed, a third would take their place. The students planned multiple waves of protesters.