Rev. Simon Bouie, SC civil rights pioneer, dies

WMBF News reports that (WIS) - A Columbia native and pioneer in the early days of the civil rights movement has died.

Simon Bouie passed away, per a Monday announcement from the University of South Carolina Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Born in Columbia in 1940, Bouie went on to become a key figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.

He and six others were originally arrested and charged after peacefully protesting segregation in 1960 at a drugstore lunch counter in Columbia.

Bouie is also named in a United States Supreme Court decision, Bouie v.

City of Columbia, which ruled that trespassing charges could not retroactively be applied.