Frederick Hart at the Edwards March
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Reverend I. DeQuincey Newman, Frederick Hart, and others arrested for participating in a civil rights march at the South Carolina State House, Columbia, South Carolina, March 2, 1961, from University of South Carolina Civil Rights Films, Moving Image Research Collections.
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/p17173coll18/id/13/rec/1
March 2, 1961. At noon, almost two hundred African-American students gather for a rally at Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina. About half of them are female, about half male. For the most part, they are students from the two main African-American colleges in Columbia: Allen University and Benedict College. Today, these students will participate in one of the largest demonstrations against racial segregation so far. Today, they will stand up to the governor of South Carolina, march to the South Carolina State
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