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Article: Scholarship honors FSU's first black football player.
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- Florida Bar News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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A $100,000 gift from two Florida State University College of Law alumni has endowed a scholarship that pays tribute to the university's first African-American football player.
Tommy Warren, a prominent Tallahassee civil rights lawyer who graduated in 1974, and his wife, Kathy Villacorta, a 1977 graduate, have established the Calvin Patterson Civil Rights Endowed Scholarship to enrich the College of Law. Specifically, the scholarship will provide support for students who have demonstrated significant interest in and commitment to furthering civil rights in general and, in particular, the rights of African-Americans in employment, voting, education, or housing, and ...