Thomas Gaither was one of the Friendship Nine, the Black civil rights demonstrators who were arrested at a restaurant sit-in ...
It wasn’t until 1991, after he had joined the Gaither Vocal Band, that Lowry showed the lyrics to Buddy Greene, a renowned southern gospel songwriter who was touring with the band that year ...
Gaither and other Black civil rights protesters went to jail in Rock Hill in the ‘Jail, no Bail’ movement in 1961.
Gaither Vocal Band: New Star Shining, on Dec. 24 at 7 p.m. ET (will premiere first on Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. ET)Celebrate the beauty and promise of the Savior’s birth with this new Christmas show ...
Thomas Gaither, one of the Black young men in the “Friendship Nine” who went to jail in Rock Hill in 1961 in protest of racial segregation, died Monday in Pennsylvania, his son Kenn Gaither said.