On this day in 1963, a mob attacked Black and white activists at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.
On this day in 1963 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today May 28, 2024 MAY 28, 1963 The nation’s most violent reaction to a sit-in protest took place when a mob attacked Black and white activists at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi. One of them, Tougaloo College professor John Salter, said, “I was attacked with fists, brass knuckles and the broken portions of glass sugar containers, and was burned with cigarettes.
O’Brien’s book, “We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired”, describes that event.This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.The stories of investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell have helped put four Klansmen and a serial killer behind bars.
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