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Mayor John Collins press release and attached Lavinia M. Underwood press release

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Mayor John Collins press release in response to President John F. Kennedy's 5-point program to promote race relations (3 copies). Collins discusses how to City of Boston is fighting for racial equality. The attached press release statement is by Lavinia M. Underwood - the President of the Warren Neighborhood Association. She speaks out against a boycott involving "120 men".
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  1. Boston (Mass.)
  2. Boycotts
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Discrimination
  5. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
  6. Race Discrimination
  7. Segregation

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