New Year's Day March
Anti-segregation protest in Greenville, South Carolina, USA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The New Year's Day March in Greenville, South Carolina was a 1,000-man march that protested the segregated facilities at the Greenville Municipal Airport, now renamed the Greenville Downtown Airport. The march occurred after Richard Henry and Jackie Robinson were prohibited from using a white-only waiting room at the airport. The march was the first large-scale movement of the civil rights movement in South Carolina and Greenville. The march brought state-wide attention to segregation, and the case Henry v. Greenville Airport Commission (1961) ultimately required the airport's integration of its facilities.
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Part of the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina | |||
Date | January 1, 1960 | ||
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Reverend James S. Hall Jr. |