"Students Angered When Desegregation Panel Is Canceled"

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Title

Subject

Florida State University

race relations

desegregation

Description

Article discussing a recently cancel panel on the impact and future of desegregation of Florida public schools as well as the angry reaction by students to the news. According to the author, more than 75 students and Tallahassee citizens showed up, including a number who had already known of the cancelation, which remained outside the room talking to each other for nearly an hour. Official statement says the cancelation was due to scheduling conflict and that the panel "was moving toward a public forum on the problem of school segregation rather than the professionally oriented discussion." Students interviewed stated the school and the panel's organizers feared retribution by Florida's legislature, and feared that African Americans might attend, as one student asked if a friend from FAMU could attend. Students even wrote up posters accusing their faculty of cowardice in the face of the legislature, posting them across campus. (Printed on Page 1 and 6)

Creator

Abbott, Joan

Source

Original digital item located in DigiNole: FSU’s Digital Repository: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_Flambeau_11181960

Publisher

Florida Flambeau

Date

1960-11-18

Rights

These materials were gathered together as part of an effort between FSU's History Department and FSU's Libraries to assemble materials related to the history of race relations in Tallahassee. The user is responsible for investigating any copyright restrictions on further use of these materials outside this digital collection.
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Identifier

FSU_Flambeau_11181960
fsu:250744

Files

Collection

How did Jim Crow regulations function at Florida State University prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

Citation

Abbott, Joan, “"Students Angered When Desegregation Panel Is Canceled",” A Community History of Race Relations: Tallahassee & Florida State University , accessed May 18, 2024, https://historyracerelationstlh.omeka.net/items/show/905.

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