Tag: sitin
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1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
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…
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Protesters stage sit-in at New York Stock Exchange to spotlight Gaza attacks
A group of protesters staged at a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange Monday morning amid continued Israeli attacks in Gaza. Individuals representing Jewish Voices for Peace, a Jewish-led pro-Palestinian group, arrived at the exchange at 85 Broad Street as part of an “unscheduled protest” just before the stock market’s official 9:30 a.m. opening,…