A DREAM DEFERRED
Former Southern University students who led 1960s sit-ins finally take their places at commencement
Friday, May 14, 2004
By Coleman Warner
Staff writer
BATON ROUGE -- Driving toward Kress Department Store on March 28, 1960, with other Southern University students, Donald Moss wasn't nervous about the group's plan for civil disobedience.
He knew that black students sitting at a whites-only lunch counter would cause a ruckus. He knew that police would be called and that the students would be hauled off to jail. But Moss, a second-year law student, wanted to strike a blow against Jim Crow.
"We didn't have any fears. We had already made a commitment that we would give our lives that day if it came to it," recalls Moss, 66, now semi-retired and living in a suburb of Cleveland.
The criminal charges against the students were tossed out by the U.S. Supreme Court the next year, helping to clear the way for such sit-ins across the South.
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ETA: This occurred when my mother was a student at SU. One of the ladies was her classmate. She remembers this incident like it was yesterday.
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