The members of the award-winning family group were on their way to perform on the annual Gaither Homecoming Alaska Cruise, ...

The local news no longer covered them. Then, in 1961, a 22-year-old organizer, Thomas Gaither, introduced a new tactic. In the next sit-in, at the lunch counter of a McCrory’s dime store in Rock ...

This time, in Rock Hill, the group was following a different formula — a “jail-no-bail” tactic embraced by the lead organizer, Thomas Gaither, as he sought to energize the sit-in activism ...