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'Our ultimate choice is desegregation or disintegration' – recovering the lost words of a jailed civil rights strategist


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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article, which was published April 9, 2021.
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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