Leader Ella Baker encouraged students to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick") to organize the effort.
Source: http://untdclibrary.blogspot.com/2014/02/ella-baker-was-unsung-civil-rights.html |
Source: http://untdclibrary.blogspot.com/2014/02/ella-baker-was-unsung-civil-rights.html
On Thursday, April 21, 1960, 45 students (including Ezell Blair, Jr., Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, and 13 Bennett College students) were arrested for trespassing as they sat at the Kress store lunch counter.
All were released without
bail.
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