South Carolina's Friendship Nine Lunch Counter Convictions Overturned

Civil rights activists convicted for 1961 sit-in protestJudge: ‘We cannot rewrite history, but we can right history’The convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height of the American civil rights movement were tossed out on Wednesday during an emotional hearing before a packed courtroom.“We cannot rewrite history, but we can right history,” Judge Mark Hayes said as he made the ruling for the men known as the Friendship Nine, and those in court clapped and cheered.

 

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