Nasreen Iqbal
The City Sentinel
” … ‘She told us that no matter what happened we shouldn’t respond in a violent way,’ sit-in participant, Portwood Williams Jr. said. ‘A lot of that was understandable to us. We were raised Christian. We were taught to turn the other cheek; to love our enemies.’ …
‘We’d walk in and sit down and they would tell us ‘we can’t serve you here.’ We would just respond by saying ‘thank you, we’ll wait,’ Henderson said. …”