[2] After his time at Livingstone College, he studied a divinity degree at Howard, and spent a year as a visiting student at a seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He started desegregation efforts in local schools, serving as an advisor for NAACP Youth Council, and participating as an observer for the American Friends Service Committee.
Cox agreed and showed up in Washington wearing formal clothing, in case anyone was questioning if the Ride lacked divine guidance.
Rollins soon had to bow out leaving Cox as the only preacher and John Lewis as the sole representative of the Nashville Student Movement.
Despite the many instances of white supremacists provoking violence, the sit-ins continued without a violent race war that many predicted would occur.
Then people in Tel Aviv and Moscow and London would not pick up their newspaper for breakfast and realize that America is not living up to the dream of liberty and justice for all.
The Supreme Court held that state government cannot employ "breach of the peace" statutes against protesters engaging in peaceable demonstrations that may potentially incite violence.