Word: smith
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...weeks later, George A. Smith, another black student from the GSE, went to Grendel's with two friends. Neither Smith nor the two women he was with had gone to Grendel's on Jan. 30. They had learned of the incident concerning Davis through mutual friends...
...When Smith entered the restaurant, the letter recounts, he was told to leave Grendel's by the same waiter who verbally attacked Davis. When he tried to explain to the waiter and subsequently to another employee that this was a case of mistaken identity, the employees both insisted that he was not welcome there because of the previous event...
...weeks later, when Smith went to Grendel's,the same waiter who the GSE students said verballyattacked Davis approached him and said, "You can'tbe in here...
...Smith said he had not been with the part of thegroup that had walked out of Grendel's on Jan. 30,although he has previously gone to Grendel's withmembers of that party...
Halberstam covered the sit-ins as a 25-year-old reporter for the Nashville Tennessean. As he writes, "I knew in some instinctive way from the first time I watched the young people walk from Kelly Miller Smith's church to the Woolworth's counter that I was watching the beginning of something historic." Halberstam went on to the New York Times and to Vietnam, where his reporting on the early stages of the war won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964. But over the years, he kept up with John Lewis, Marion Barry, Jim Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash...