Day 4

March 7, 1961: Rev. Ivory constructs a mass meeting to honor the Friendship 9 students that were released. He had CORE member James Farmer speak. It was an held to celebrate and praise the actions the boys and show them that what they had done was not for naught. Not only were they heroes in [...]

Students continued to picket, protest, sit-in and refuse bail in Rock Hill, and other towns across the South did the same. A lot were successful in achieving integration at the lunch counters, but not all were. In fact, some lunch counters closed their doors for good due to the sit-in movement, while others dragged their [...]