50 Years Ago This Week

50 years ago this week, there were more than 300 civil rights demonstrators staged sit-in.The demonstrators stage a sit-in and demonstration on the lawn of the Greene county courthouse in Eutaw, Al.

In Hale county, the town of Greensboro, The Hale County Voter Registration Board abandoned the controversial literacy test for new voters after talking with an attorney for the justice department.