JACKSON, MS

May 28, 1963

Woolworth's on Capitol St.

By the mid-1950's, rumblings of change had starting simmering in the Jim Crow South.  In Jackson, activists like Medgar Evers came forward as leaders and organized both blacks and whites  in the fight for desegregation and equal rights for African-Americans.

Colia Clark

Civil Rights Veteran

Having already announced a boycott of white-owned businesses the previous year, civil rights activists led by Tougaloo professor John Salter stage a sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter. SImilar actions had already begun popping up in different cities across the South, but this was the firtst of its kind in Jackson.