David Williamson Jr. of Rock Hill, South Carolina, took a stand by sitting down at a segregated lunch counter. After being arrested, Williamson refused bail, forcing a segregated government to pay to keep him behind bars and feed him for almost a month. Williamson and the "Friendship Nine" provided a template for bringing about change through nonviolent civil disobedience, and others across the South soon followed this “jail, no bail” strategy. The resulting strain on public coffers forced an end to segregated lunch counters.