‘He was our Moses.’ Thomas Gaither, SC Friendship Nine civil rights hero, dies at 86
Gaither and other Black civil rights protesters went to jail in Rock Hill in the ‘Jail, no Bail’ movement in 1961.
Thomas Gaither, member of Rock Hill's Friendship Nine, dies in Pennsylvania
Thomas Gaither was one of the Friendship Nine, the Black civil rights demonstrators who were arrested at a restaurant sit-in ...
‘Friendship Nine’ Civil Rights Activist Dies At 86, Surviving Members Remember Him As ‘Our Moses’
Thomas Gaither, the organizing member of the "Friendship Nine," passed away on Monday in Pennsylvania at the age of 86.
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'He was our Moses.' Thomas Gaither, SC Friendship Nine civil rights hero, dies at 86
The "Jail, No Bail" movement from the group called the Friendship Nine sparked national attention and re-ignited civil rights protests around the South that had started a year earlier in ...
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‘He was our Moses.’ Thomas Gaither, SC Friendship Nine civil rights hero, dies at 86
Thomas Gaither, one of the Black young men in the “Friendship Nine” who went to jail in Rock Hill in 1961 in protest of racial segregation, died Monday in Pennsylvania, his son Kenn Gaither said.