Harold Foster

Life and Orange County connections

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1. February 28, 1960 The Chapel Hill Nine sit-in Nine Black young men held Chapel Hill’s first sit-in at Colonial Drug. People: Harold Foster, William Cureton, John Farrington, Earl Geer, David Mason Jr., Clarence Merritt Jr., James Merritt, Douglas Perry, Albert Williams Place: Chapel HillTown of Chapel Hill
2. February 29, 1960 Lincoln High students picket Colonial Drug and sit in at the Bus Station Cafe The day after the sit-in, nearly 100 Black high school students picketed Colonial Drug after manager John Carswell roped off its booths, while others filled the counter at the Bus Station Cafe until proprietor Leo Eliadis closed it and were served standing at the Long Meadow Dairy Bar. People: Harold Foster, Hilliard Caldwell Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: John Carswell, Leo EliadisThe Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1960, p. 1
3. March 1, 1960 The Chapel Hill sit-in movement forms an executive committee and retains counsel At a Tuesday night meeting the Lincoln High demonstrators and their adult supporters organized, set up an executive committee to coordinate the lunch-counter protests and acquired legal counsel. People: Harold Foster, Hilliard Caldwell Place: Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 10, 1960, p. 1
4. March 21, 1960 The Chapel Hill CORE Committee rejects a second truce and resumes picketing as 27 ministers back the protests After a week-long pause the students' 12-member executive committee, led by Harold Foster, declined the Human Relations Committee's request for a second truce and resumed afternoon picketing at Colonial Drug and Long Meadow Dairy. Twenty-seven Chapel Hill ministers issued a statement commending the peaceful, non-violent picketing. People: Harold Foster, Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 21, 1960, p. 1
5. July 19, 1963 Police carry out demonstrators sitting in at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association office Members of the Committee for Open Business sat in and sang in the Merchants Association office on West Franklin Street to press merchants to desegregate. Police carried out 27 on trespass warrants signed by director Joe Augustine, and 34 were arrested that day in all. People: Harold Foster, Pat Cusick Place: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association office, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe AugustineThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 21, 1963, p. 3 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 15, 1963, p. 3