Civil Rights Leader Patricia Stephens Due Dies at 72

"In 1960, as a 20-year-old college student and founding member of the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, Due, her sister, Priscilla, and three other Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University students were arrested for sitting at a Woolworth lunch counter. Their decision to spend 49 days in jail rather than pay fines marked one of the first 'jail-ins' during the civil rights movement. . ."