Summary
Six years after the Supreme Court ruled on school integration, Charleston blacks still couldn't eat at The Diamond department store.
"It seemed so silly," recalled black community leader Daisy Alston in a 1996 Gazette story about The Diamond. "We could eat at Woodrum's. The Diamond just wasn't up with it."See the full content of this document
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Civil Rights: ; Man Recalls 60 Diamond Sit-In
A group of students from West Virginia State College decided to do something about that.
On March 26, 1960, a cold, cloudy Saturday, 14 students walked into the first floor lunch area, seated themselves at the counter and waited to be served.They waited all day. Nobody would serve them.The incident warranted a short front-pa...See the full content of this document
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