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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Documentary TELLS STORY OF CHILDREN Who Led 'Sit-in' for State Civil Rights Movement - by Nasreen Iqbal

FEBRUARY 2015



Nasreen Iqbal
The City Sentinel

" ... 'She told us that no matter what happened we shouldn’t respond in a violent way,' sit-in participant, Portwood Williams Jr. said. 'A lot of that was understandable to us. We were raised Christian. We were taught to turn the other cheek; to love our enemies.' ...

'We’d walk in and sit down and they would tell us ‘we can’t serve you here.’ We would just respond by saying ‘thank you, we’ll wait,' Henderson said. ..."

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