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Skip to main content Our ultimate choice is desegregation or disintegration - recovering the lost words of a jailed civil rights strategist Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina April 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina and Christopher Frear, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) In a cramped cell in a South Carolina prison camp, 22-year-old African American activist Thomas Gaither wrote, “I am presently in deep contemplation as to just what our nation and our particular region of the nation prizes most.” It was Thursday, Feb. 23, 1961, and Gaither was serving a 30-day term of hard labor on a road gang for what police called “trespassing,” when he and students from Friendship Junior College staged a sit-in at a Rock Hill, South Carolina, lunch counter. The letter he was writing marked day 23.

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