Two Rock Hill men ask for and receive forgiveness for their racist past

‘We accept your apology’

By ANDREW DYS - The (Rock Hill) Herald

ROCK HILL — Next to a lunch counter that was segregated for so long sat a table of two white people and five black people Friday afternoon. Conversation quickly took them back to Jan. 31, 1961.

Elwin Wilson, one of those white men, had come that day to that very lunch counter four steps away from where he was now, wanting to pull one of those black men off the stool. He wanted to give a beating.