New Year's Day March

New Year's Day March
New Year's Day March
Part of the Civil Rights Movement; in South Carolina
Date	January 1, 1960
Location	Greenville, South Carolina
Caused by	Racial segregation of the local airport;
Resulted in	Henry v. Greenville Airport Commission (1961); Integration of Greenville Municipal Airport; Launching of the civil rights movement in Greenville;
Parties
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Congress of Racial Equality (CORE);	Greenville Municipal Airport O.L. Andrews; ;
Lead figures
	Reverend James S. Hall Jr.; Reverend T.B. Thomas; James T. McCain; Jackie Robinson; Alice Spearman; Governor Fritz Hollings Greenville Municipal Airport

The New Year's Day March in Greenville, South Carolina was a 1,000-man march that protested the segregated facilities at the Greenville Municipal Airport, now renamed the Greenville Downtown Airport. The march occurred after Richard Henry and Jackie Robinson were prohibited from using a white-only waiting room at the airport. The march was the first large-scale movement of the civil rights movement in South Carolina and Greenville. The march brought state-wide attention to segregation, and the case Henry v. Greenville Airport Commission (1961) ultimately required the airport's integration of its facilities.
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