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Updated: May 23, 2025
After submitting a list of their demands to President Nixon, their spokesman, Representative William Clay, D-Mo., said: "We are going to set the tone for the black liberation struggle in this country.... Black people in this country have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.... I think we've reached the point in black America where we've completely given up on the mass demonstrations, sit-ins and boycotts.
The next day, they were joined by a large number of fellow students. In a matter of weeks, student sit-ins were occurring at segregated lunch counters all across the South. College and high school students by the thousands joined the Civil Rights Movement.
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