Hardy Woodward Hunter

Released
Full name:Hardy Hunter
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1960s
State:Tennessee
Support
Civil Rights
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Biography

Hardy Woodward Hunter was a student at Tennessee A&I in Nashville and part of the 1960 lunch-counter sit-in movement. After a white youth yanked him from his stool at a downtown counter, it was Hunter — not his attacker — who was charged with disorderly conduct and fined $100.

Case

Charges: Disorderly conduct / fighting
Sentence: Fined $100 Charges as recorded: Disorderly conduct / fighting — a Nashville lunch-counter sit-in
Convicted: Yes

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