The nine students at Alabama State College who were expelled in 1960 for their participation in a lunch counter sit-in. The students are: James McFadden, Joseph Peterson, St. John Dixon, Bernard Lee, Edward E. Jones, Leon Rice, Howard Shipman, Elroy Emory, and Marzette Watts
Students staged an anti-segregation sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in the Montgomery County Courthouse on February 25, 1960.