South Carolina Court Clears ‘Friendship Nine’ Of Civil Rights Crimes 54 Years Later

Jan 28 (Reuters) – A South Carolina judge on Wednesday vacated the 54-year-old trespassing convictions of a group of black civil rights protesters credited with reinvigorating the 1960s U.S. sit-in movement against segregated lunch counters.

(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Editing by Eric Walsh and Bill Trott)

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