Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
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Thomas Gaither, who led ‘jail-no-bail’ civil rights activism, dies at 86
as he sought to energize the sit-in activism and push the limits of nonviolent dissent encouraged by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “We pleaded not guilty,” wrote Mr. Gaither, who died Dec ...
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‘He was our Moses.’ Thomas Gaither, SC Friendship Nine civil rights hero, dies at 86
Thomas Gaither, one of the Black young men in the “Friendship Nine” who went to jail in Rock Hill in 1961 in protest of racial segregation, died Monday in Pennsylvania, his son Kenn Gaither said.