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| Title : |
[Clergymen choose jail rather than pay fines : Tallahassee,
Florida
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Reference collection |
| Image Number : |
Rc17743 |
| Date : |
1964. |
| Notes : |
These white and Negro clergymen elected to go to jail on a
60-day sentence rather than pay a $500 fine each. The ministers were arrested
in 1961 when they refused to obey an order to end a sit-in at the airport
restaurant. They have been free on a $1,000 bond. From L-R are Reverend
John W. Collier from Newark, New Jersey; Reverend A. McArven Warner from
New York City; Rabbi Martin Freedman from Paterson, New Jersey; Reverend
Arthur L. Hardge from New Britain, Connecticut; Rabbi Israel Dressner from
Springfield, New Jersey; Reverend Robert J. Stone from New York City; Dr.
Robert McAfee Brown from Stanford, California; and Reverend Petty D. McKinney
from Nyack, New Jersey.August 3, 1964. |
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