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Founded in 2015, WhereU was formerly an award winning Business Directory app. Looking for black owned businesses in your local community. What about a plumber?
Now we are a digital storytelling brand bringing you engaging Black History stories through vivid 8K, cinematic and immersive productions Did you relocate and need service providers? A dentist? Or the best caterer? WHERE-U is your best guide when looking for pros or services. The app also makes all emergency numbers such as police, ambulance, towing available even while offline! For different serv
The nine students at Alabama State College (now Alabama State University) who were expelled in 1960 for their participation in a lunch counter sit-in. The students are: James McFadden, Joseph Peterson, St. John Dixon, Bernard Lee, Edward E. Jones, Leon Rice, Howard Shipman, Elroy Emory, and Marzette Watts.
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Students at Alabama State College, a traditionally African American institution in Montgomery, Alabama, staged an anti-segregation sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in the Montgomery County Courthouse on February 25, 1960.
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Four days later, on February 29, 1960, Alabama Governor John Patterson held a news conference to condemn the sit-in. Patterson, who was also chairman of the State Board of Education, threatened to terminate Alabama State College’s funding unless it expelled the student organizers and warned that “someone [was] likely to be killed” if the protests continued.
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The next day, more than 1,000 Alabama State College students marched on the state capitol. On March 2, 1960, the college expelled the nine student leaders of the courthouse sit-in. More than 1,000 students immediately pledged a mass strike, threatened to withdraw from the school, and staged days of demonstrations; 37 students were arrested.
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Montgomery Police Commissioner L.B. Sullivan recommended closing the college, which he claimed produced only “graduates of hate and racial bitterness.” Meanwhile, six of the nine expelled students sought reinstatement through a federal lawsuit. In August 1960, in Dixon v. Alabama, a federal court upheld the expulsions as “justified and, in fact, necessary” and barred the students’ readmission to the school.
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On February 25, 2010, in a ceremony commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the sit-in, Alabama State University President William Harris reinstated the nine students, criticized Governor Patterson’s “arbitrary, illegal and intrusive” role in forcing the expulsions, and praised the student protest as “an important moment in civil rights history.”
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