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Shown above entering the State Capitol Building at Austin, Texas, the afternoon of April 27 are lead-off marchers in a line of 75 college students from five Texas Negro colleges and the University of Texas, on the way to the galleries of the Legislature to picket that body in the interest of abolishing segregation in education Seen leading the line are Donald Jones, NAACP Regional Secretary, W. Astor Kirk and J.H. Morton, instructors at Tillotson and Samuel Huston Colleges, respectively /

Thumbnail for Shown above entering the State Capitol Building at Austin, Texas, the afternoon of April 27 are lead-off marchers in a line of 75 college students from five Texas Negro colleges and the University of Texas, on the way to the galleries of the Legislature to picket that body in the interest of abolishing segregation in education Seen leading the line are Donald Jones, NAACP Regional Secretary, W. Astor Kirk and J.H. Morton, instructors at Tillotson and Samuel Huston Colleges, respectively /
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  1. African Americans
  2. Austin
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  5. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  6. People
  7. Photographic Prints
  8. Riots & Demonstrations
  9. Segregation
  10. Students
  11. Texas
  12. Texas State Capitol (Austin, Tex.)

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