Convictions of black protesters imprisoned for 1961 sit-in are overturned, 54 years later - The Washington Post
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Via Elisabeth Vallet toujours (quelle mine...)
A South Carolina judge on Wednesday vacated the convictions of the “Friendship Nine” protesters who were arrested, jailed and sentenced to 30 days of hard labor in a chain gang for their part in a sit-in protest at the “whites only” counter of a Rock Hill, S.C. restaurant.
“Let the decision of the court today show the resolve of South Carolina to work together, to learn together, and to progress together to ensure the promises set forth in our Constitution: That all men are equal under the law,” said former South Carolina Chief Justice Ernest A. Finney, Jr., who served as the lawyer for “Friendship Nine” in 1961 and again in the proceedings on Wednesday. Finney later became South Carolina’s first African American chief justice in the post-Reconstruction Era.
