Source

State Archives of Florida, Collection N2015-1

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.

Date

1960-03-22

Creator

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Publisher

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Contributors

Carney, Clement

Format

Newsletters

Coverage

Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

Topic

Slavery And Race Relations

Subjects

Broxton, Barbara
Broxton, John
Carney, Clement
Civil rights movements
Civil rights--Social Aspects
Collins, LeRoy (Thomas LeRoy), 1909-1991
Due, Patricia Stephens, 1939-2012
F.W. Woolworth Company
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Student Government Association
Florida. Governor (1955-1961 : Collins)
Kruize, Priscilla Stephens, 1938-
Larkins, William
Leon County Jail (Tallahassee, Fla.)
Mass media and race relations
Nance, Angela
Pratt, Herman
Robinson, Ira Charles
Steele, Henry

Geographic Term

Tallahassee
Leon County