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Article: The Southern University 16: a tribute to 16 African-American college students whose sacrifices improved the lives of all of us.
- Article from:
- The Black Collegian
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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For participating in the sit-ins of March 28, 29 and 30, 1960, 16 African-American college students were expelled from Southern University and barred from all public colleges and universities in the state of Louisiana, their educations interrupted, their lives, those of their families, and those of African Americans forever changed.
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We salute their dignity, forever recorded by the United States Supreme Court: "Thus, having shown that these records contain no evidence to support a finding that petitioners disturbed the peace, either by outwardly boisterous conduct or by passive [368 U.S. 157, 174] conduct likely to cause a public ...