They were arrested, but their intervention was celebrated as part of a much larger nonviolent strategy of the civil rights movement.
Next year they will arrive in New York to be celebrated as part of the opening of the dramatically transformed Museum for African Art, in its new home on upper Fifth Avenue.
Where else would the disfigurement of a national symbol (albeit an Anglo-Irishman) - the traffic cone which has repeatedly and drunkenly been used to adorn the head of the Duke of Wellington in Royal Exchange Square for the past 30 years - be celebrated as part of a national story before a billion-strong television audience?
It coincides with the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, one of the most important religious holidays in Romania, and in the nearby village of Tilisca, St. Mary's Day is celebrated as part of a shepherds' festival.
Prince, Bowie tributes: The past year has been a tough one for rock's all-too-mortal gods, and two of the most sorely missed will be celebrated as part of the Artscape After Hours scene.
Does the rest of America really see the South as its moral and cultural equal, and does it really admit that the history of the South is American history, to be celebrated as part of the American story?
She lamented the loss of the world of her parents, where children read "dime novels" about Teddy Roosevelt and Annie Oakley and guns were celebrated as a part of culture.
He has been celebrated as an integral part of America's future in men's tennis.
If only it was supported rather than sidelined, and if niche audiences were celebrated as a vital part of the public service remit, rather than canned, it would become known far wider for being the station it is – the Radio 3 for the pop and rock generation, thorough but tender, wide-ranging but warm, and a bright light for all music.
