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NAACP The meaning of Sit-Ins

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.158 Author/Creator: NAACP Place Written: New York, New York Type: Header Record Date: September 1960 Pagination: 2 items. Order a Copy

Two copies of "The meaning of the Sit-Ins" by Roy Wilkins dated September 1960. Print out of the pamphlet is a transcription of a speech Wilkins delivered on April 16, 1960 to the City Club Forum in Cleveland, Ohio.

Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

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