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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jeffrey Collins

1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared

Civil Rights Arrests Cleared - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself arrested.

Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order during a ceremony in a Columbia courthouse just a few blocks from where he sat at that segregated table some 64 years before.

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