In North Carolina, there were signs posted, but the rules were not enforced. When they entered South Carolina, things became a little rough. The southern hate prevailed and while at Rock Hill, the first stop in South Carolina, John Lewis tried to enter a for “whites only” waiting room and was immediately hit with discrimination. John Lewis told the ignorant, young man that he had a right to go inside the room because of the Supreme Court decision in the Boynton Case. This case, Boynton vs. Virginia, overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites
In North Carolina, there were signs posted, but the rules were not enforced. When they entered South Carolina, things became a little rough. The southern hate prevailed and while at Rock Hill, the first stop in South Carolina, John Lewis tried to enter a for “whites only” waiting room and was immediately hit with discrimination. John Lewis told the ignorant, young man that he had a right to go inside the room because of the Supreme Court decision in the Boynton Case. This case, Boynton vs. Virginia, overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites