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Photographer: C.F. Bruce
Taken: March 1963
Caption: Cyril O. Spann SR, MD with Edwards v. South Carolina team
Additional Description: Student protesters vindicated after winning the Edwards v.South Carolina case. Before them stand attorney Lincoln C. Jenkins, Attorney Matthew J. Perry, Cyril O Spann Sr., MD and NAACP leader I.DeQuincey Newman. The 187 petitioners consisted of African-American high school and college students who assembled at the Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina on March 2, 1961 and marched to the South Carolina State House grounds to express their grievances regarding civil rights of African-Americans. The students failed to disperse when ordered to do so and were arrested. Dr. Spann raised money to insure that the bail was paid. The student protesters were convicted of the common law crime of breach of the peace. The case went to the US Supreme Court, which held that in South Carolina infringed on the petitioners’ rights of free speech, free assembly and freedom to petition for a redress of grievances, rights guaranteed by the First Amendment and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Submitted: November 24, 2019, by C.F. Bruce of Columbia, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p503497
File Size: 0.141 Megabytes

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