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

  • Written by Bobby J. Donaldson, Associate Professor of History; Director Center for Civil Rights History and Research, University of South Carolina
imageView of the Friendship 9 students who protested against racial discrimination and were put in prison, Rock Hill, South Carolina, February 1961.Afro American Newspapers/Gado via Getty Images

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...

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