There was no discussion that over 70,000 Negro college students in the South were acting to defy segregation laws and demand freedom. However, the arrest of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would gain enough traction to put the Sit-In Movement on the agenda of the presidential campaign. On October 19th, 1960, hundreds of students accompanied by Dr. King staged sit-ins throughout Atlanta with a large number of arrests. The arrested students vowed: “Jail no bail.” As a result of Dr. King’s arrests, the protests increased in size the following day. Three days after the initial protest, at the request of Mayor Hartsfield to attempt a settlement between the students and merchants, COAHR calls a truce to the protests. As a result of the “truce”, the students arrested were released from jail. Over the next four months, Lonnie King and the students continued to protest unabatedly. Protestors who were arrested would refuse bail, to crowd the jails. Downtown Atlanta white establishments lost over $10 million due to the Christmas Boycotts carried out by the Negro Community. With the Christmas Boycott success, Lonnie King announced an extension of the boycott to run through Easter on February 1st, 1961. On March 6th, 1961, Jesse Hill requested Lonnie King and the new COAHR co-chair, Herschelle Sullivan, to attend an urgent meeting at the Chamber of Commerce. Power members of the white and black community were in attendance to call off the boycott on a gentleman’s agreement to desegregate after the school system peacefully desegregates in the fall of 1961. Lonnie King refused this agreement, as he wanted to keep fighting for equality. However, black leaders, including Martin Luther King Sr. and major NAACP leader, John Calhoun, insisted on the agreement because they have lived every day of their lives segregated and the white leaders are willing to sign an agreement to desegregate. The back leaders have waited their whole lives for this moment and would be willing to wait three to four months for desegregation. King and Sullivan felt betrayed by their elders in the black community but ultimately consented to the settlement. In the wake of the settlement, students and members of the Negro community expressed their dissatisfaction with the community’s elder black leadership decision to postpone desegregation. On March 10th, 1961, a mass meeting was held at Warren Memorial with over 2000 people in attendance. Elder black leaders, including A.T. Walden, Martin Luther King Sr., and William Holmes Borders attempted to lecture the hostile audience about the thought process behind the decision that was made on March 6th.