Rev. Simon Bouie has passed away, according to an announcement made from the University of South Carolina Center for Civil Rights History and Research.
Bouie was born and raised in Columbia. His national attention grew after he and a fellow classmate were arrested for challenging segregation at an Eckerd's Drugstore lunch counter.
That arrest led to the United States Supreme Court decision in Bouie V. City of Columbia, a landmark case in civil rights history.
In the decision, Bouie's conviction was overturned, playing a major part in the Civil Rights act of 1964.
Sixty years later, a judge in Richland County expunged Bouie's arrest record from the sit-in protests.
As a pastor, Bouie served congregations across South Carolina, New York, and Philadelphia.