CHARLOTTE, NC: Today, a Rock Hill judge will overturn a conviction dating back to 1961 for the Friendship Nine. A group of black students were arrested for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter. Award winning columnist and speaker Mary C. Curtis talks with WCCB News Rising’s Terrance Bates about this local case’s significance in the Civil Rights history of America.
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Justice at last for the Friendship 9
- By Mary Curtis
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