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1947-1972. Meet South Carolinians who fought for equality during the Civil Rights Movement.
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 Jail, No Bail: Introduction | Carolina Stories 1

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Jail, No Bail: Introduction | Carolina Stories
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Rock Hill, South Carolina, was a thriving mill town, also known as “The Gateway to the Carolinas.” Like most of the segregated South, there were two separate worlds: one black...
 Jail, No Bail: February 12, 1960 | Carolina Stories 2

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Jail, No Bail: February 12, 1960 | Carolina Stories
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If Rock Hill was a war-zone, the most pivotal battle was February 12, 1960. For months before that date, local churches, students, and members of the NAACP planned a mass sit-in protest at lunch...
 Jail, No Bail: "Jail, No Bail" | Carolina Stories 3

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Jail, No Bail: "Jail, No Bail" | Carolina Stories
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By the summer of 1960, civil rights leaders began to question the effectiveness of these “sit-ins.” Thomas Gaither, a field secretary for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), along with other civil...
Jail, No Bail: Introduction | Carolina Stories
   - Episode 1 Jail, No Bail: Ernest J. Finney | Carolina Stories 4

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Jail, No Bail: Ernest J. Finney | Carolina Stories
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Rev. Ivory, and James McCain, the South Carolina leader of CORE, arranged for a sharp, young attorney to represent and defend the student protesters: Ernest J. Finney. Finney would later on become the...
 Jail, No Bail: Life In Prison | Carolina Stories 5

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Jail, No Bail: Life In Prison | Carolina Stories
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Life in jail for the student prisoners was grueling. News of these “jail-ins” had reached other civil rights groups, and caught the attention of SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee). SNCC...
Civil Rights Glossary  | Road Trip!

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Civil Rights Glossary | Road Trip!
CIVIL RIGHTS - The rights of individuals to be free from unfair or unequal treatment (discrimination) in a number of settings, when that negative treatment is based on the individual's race, gender...
 Hines, John Elbridge | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hines, John Elbridge | South Carolina Public Radio
“H” is for Hines, John Elbridge [1910-1997]. Clergyman. Civil Rights advocate. A native of Seneca, Hines graduated from Sewanee and Virginia Theological Seminary. After being ordained an Episcopal...
 Hinton, James Miles | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hinton, James Miles | South Carolina Public Radio
“H” is for Hinton, James Miles [1891-1970]. Clergyman, businessman, civil rights leader. A native North Carolinian, Hinton began his business career in Augusta with the black-owned Pilgrim Health and...
 Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. | South Carolina Public Radio

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Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. | South Carolina Public Radio
“S” is for Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. [b. 1944]. Civil rights activist. Educator. Sellers attended Howard University where he met several student activists, including Stokely Carmichael—later...