Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151106:09:49:00
Assigned $100 bail, and they decided they would not pay it. the authorities here decided, well, if they weren't going to pay their bail they weren't going to let these guys just sit here in a jail cell getting fed, they were going to do hard labor. so these young men who got arrested sitting in at a lunch counter in rock hill, they got assigned to the chain gang. hard labor for their arrest, which was remarkable at the time. but that strategic change that those young men made, jail, not bail, that shifted the financial burden of civil disobedience of the whole sit-in movement, the whole moveme...
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