The students were John Bailey, James Gilbert Blake, Jenniesse Blake, Andrew Brown, Deloris Brown, Minerva Brown, Charles Butler, Mitchell Christopher, Allen Coley, Corelius Fludd, Harvey Gantt, Joseph Gerideau, Kennett Andrew German, Cecile Gordon, Annette Graham, Alfred Hamilton, Caroline Jenkins, Francis Johnson, Joseph Jones, Alvin Delford Latten, Verna Jean McNeil, David Paul Richardson, Arthuree Singleton, and Fred Smalls.

[1] The Charleston newspaper responded with a strong editorial against the demonstration: City police did not wish to arrest the students, though their mumbo-jumbo antics in quoting prayer and scripture were calculated to disturb the normal business of a reputable concern.

When the students refused to move on closing of the store, the police were forced to make the arrests for which the students had come in the first place.We are confident that sober, respectable citizens of both races are embarrassed at the deliberate dramatizing of racial division which in the past has been accepted by consent.

[5] Protests continued into 1961 when nine students were arrested in February 1961 and fined $75 or 30 days in jail.

The NAACP paid the bonds for nine of the students; four younger protestors were released to their parents' custody.