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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."The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African Americans
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  5. Civil Rights Movements
  6. Civil Rights Workers
  7. Demonstrations
  8. Direct Action
  9. Discrimination
  10. Discrimination In Restaurants
  11. Le Moyne College
  12. Memphis
  13. Men, White
  14. Owen College
  15. Protest Marches
  16. Restaurantshttp://Idserver.Utk.Edu/?Id=200700000001428
  17. Signs And Signboards
  18. Sit Ins
  19. Students
  20. Tennessee

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