The TSU students didn't stop there. They protested the end of segregation across the Houston area, even stopping at City Hall.
A group of students who attended Texas Southern University did the unthinkable,by marching and sitting down at an all-white, segregated grocery store lunch counter. Now, 62 years later, two of them sat down with ABC13's Melanie Lawson to recall the move.
They said law student Eldrewy Stearns told them to dress up and ignore the threats and insults being hurled at them. Stearns is credited to have helped plan the protests.They were young, but saw that the world was changing. Black students in North Carolina were already ahead and held the first few sit-ins at a "whites-only counter," and TSU students wanted to do the same.
Following the arrests, many churches and black businesses would bail out the students and assist them with finding legal help."Mine were very proud, my parents," Williams said.
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