![]() The participants of the sit-in were attacked by a white mob, who beat up one of the students to the point of unconsciousness, roughed up the other protestors, and dumped condiments over the heads of demonstrators sitting directly at the lunch counter.The sit-in lasted until Woolworths closed that evening. Despite the legality of the sit-in, little protection was provided by Jackson police that day. Moody, a student at Mississippi’s historically African American Tougaloo College, helped organize a peaceful sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Jackson on May 28, 1963, just after the Supreme Court delivered a decision that made sit-ins legal. ![]() May 28, 1963Ĭivil rights activist and writer Anne Moody passed away on Thursday, February 5 at her home in Gloster, Mississippi. Crowd of people pour sugar, ketchup and mustard on them in protest. ![]() Civil rights sit-in by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi. ![]()
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