One of the praying students was pulled violently from his seat.Įvers was assassinated outside his Jackson home two weeks after the sit-in.Īfter Moody graduated from college in 1964, she moved to New York, where she wrote her book. She wrote that after she and two other black students started praying at the counter, one white man slapped her and another threw her against an adjoining counter. White high school students, egged on by some adults, dumped ketchup and mustard on the heads of Moody and the other protesters. They had worked with Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers to prepare for the protest. On May 28, 1963, Moody was part of an integrated group of students from historically black Tougaloo College who staged a peaceful sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.
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