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From: "northernwinds" <>
Subject: [AL-AfricaAmer-L] FYI
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:11:11 -0400
September 21, 1961 Southern Regional Council announced that Sit-in movement
had effected twenty states and more than one hundred cities in Southern and
Border States in period from February, 1960, to September, 1961. At least
seventy thousand Blacks and whites had participated in the movement, the
report said. The council estimated that 3,600 had been arrested and that at
least 141 students and 58 faculty members had been expelled by college
authorities. SRC said one or more establishments in 108 Southern and Border
State cities had been desegregated as a result of sit-ins.
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