Gaither and other Black civil rights protesters went to jail in Rock Hill in the ‘Jail, no Bail’ movement in 1961.
Thomas Gaither, the organizing member of the "Friendship Nine," passed away on Monday in Pennsylvania at the age of 86.
Thomas Gaither was one of the Friendship Nine, the Black civil rights demonstrators who were arrested at a restaurant sit-in ...
Thomas Gaither a member of Rock Hill's legendary Froendship Nine passed away Monday in Pennsylvania. In 1961, he and eight others protested racial segregation i ...
Thomas Gaither, one of the Black young men in the “Friendship Nine” who went to jail in Rock Hill in 1961 in protest of racial segregation, died Monday in Pennsylvania, his son Kenn Gaither said.