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Listen: The Latin ProgramBenjamin Cowins during a sit-in at McCrory's lunch counter in Tallahassee.
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Date Note
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Collection
Patricia Stephens Due Papers, N2015-1, Box 10, Folder 1
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Counters
Jim Crow
Lunch counters
Food service--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Discrimination in public accommodations
Race discrimination
Segregation
Blacks--Segregation
African Americans--Segregation
Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Political activity
Political activists
African American civil rights workers--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Political participation
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
Accompanying note: "With money in his hand, FAMU student Benjamin Cowins tries to get service at a McCrory's lunch counter on February 21, 1961. He looks toward the waitress, who is ignoring him. Two weeks later he was arrested at a Neisners lunch counter, which led to his spending thirty days in jail."
Biographical Note
Patricia Stephens Due was an African-American civil rights leader and activist. She was an educator, public speaker, author and life-long civil rights proponent.
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