James T. Nunnelly made Columbia a better place to live by taking part in the sit-in at the Minute Inn.

Read about the 1960 event in this “The Sit-in at the Minute Inn: A Columbia native and the civil rights protest that shaped him,” published on Nov. 18, 2018 in Vox magazine. 

As the plaque says on the side of the Missouri Theatre, lest we forget/never again.