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Collection ID is exactly "40" AND Contributor contains "Carney, Clement"
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SGA Newsletter, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, March 22, 1960

SGA Newsletter, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, March 22, 1960
Date
1960-03-22
Description
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)'s SGA newsletter, volume 1, number 5 with a letter from Clement Carney, who was in jail following a sit-in at Woolworth's in Tallahassee. The seven other jailed students are listed in the newsletter and FAMU's students are asked to write them letters of encouragement. Also in the newsletter is a section asking students to avoid shopping in downtown Tallahassee because the stores are discriminating against African-Americans and another section about the speech Governor LeRoy Collins made on March 20, 1960, in which he directly confronted the issue of discrimination at department store lunch counters.
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SGA Newsletter, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, March 22, 1960

SGA Newsletter, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, March 22, 1960
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n2015-1_b003_f23_26SGA Newsletter, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, March 22, 1960TextCivil rights movements
Civil rights--Social Aspects
Mass media and race relations		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f23_26.jpg