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Students from LeMoyne College and Owen College conduct a lunch counter sit-in. Downtown Memphis. Employee installing sign stating "This counter closed".

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Memphis Public Library

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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil And Human Rights
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Movement In Tennessee
  5. Civil Rights Movements
  6. History
  7. Memphis
  8. Pictorial Works
  9. Social Reform
  10. Tennessee

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