Milwaukee Sentinel
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Milwaukee Sentinel article reporting on the removal of Mary Browner from a student sit-in demonstration at Marquette's O'Hara Hall, April 4, 1968.Policemen carried Mary Browner, of 846 N. 15th st., a part time student at Marquette university, to a waiting police van. She was taken into custody Wednesday during a sit-in civil rights demonstration when she refused to leave the university’s administration building. -Sentinel photo Coed Carried Out of Sit-In at MU A Marquette coed was carried out of the university’s administration building Wednesday night and taken into police custody after she refused to leave the building. Mary Browner, 26, a part time student, was the last holdout in a sit-in demonstration protesting what the students termed the university’s failure to work actively in the civil rights area. All of the demonstrators except Miss Browner, 846 N. 15th st., had left the building before police arrived. Fifteen demonstrators singing freedom songs lined the sidewalk as three policemen carried Miss Browner to a police van. Miss Browner offered no resistance. The demonstration, led by Students United for Racial Equa
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