On October 25, Simon Bouie and six others had their arrest records cleared over six decades after staging a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in Columbia, South Carolina. As reported by The Associated Press, the order for their record expungement was signed by a judge just a few blocks from where they were originally detained.
Before joining the protest, Bouie reassured his mother he wouldn’t cause trouble, keeping this in mind as he and his fellow activists sat peacefully at the Eckerd Drug Store counter.
“We had a desire to fight for what was right and nobody could turn us around. We walked in that building with our heads held high and sat down,” Bouie told the AP.
