An event next week will honor university students who led a 1960 sit-in at a whites-only courthouse lunch counter.

Alabama State University said in a news release that resolutions by the Montgomery City Council and Montgomery County Commission that acknowledge the “wrongs from the past” will be presented Monday to the university president Dr. Quinton T. Ross, Jr.The students from the historically black university on Feb. 25, 1960, staged a sit-in at the whites-only lunch counter at the Montgomery County Courthouse.

It was the first known sit-in in Alabama to defy segregation laws.

The students were arrested and prosecuted.

The event is being held on the 59th anniversary of the protest.
(Associated Press, copyright 2018)

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