One of the Friendship 9 at a racially integrated diner January 27 in Rock Hill, where all the patrons get along just fine. Fifty-four years later, the county prosecutor asked a judge to give the men a new trial – and the lawyer who represented them originally, Ernest A. Finney, Jr., returned to argue their case again, having retired as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. But no arguing was necessary; their convictions were promptly reversed, the judge pronounced them innocent and the prosecutor publicly apologized. (Megan Gielow/The New York Times) #BlackHistoryMonth
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