Dr. Burcham Phillips speaking into a microphone during a student demonstration in Tuskegee, Alabama, to protest the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker.
Dr. Phillips, dean of students at Tuskegee Institute, encouraged the protest. The murder and demonstrations were discussed in several issues of The Southern Courier, which are available online: http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No02_1966_01_08.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/3094 |
| Summary: | Dr. Phillips, dean of students at Tuskegee Institute, encouraged the protest. The murder and demonstrations were discussed in several issues of The Southern Courier, which are available online: http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No02_1966_01_08.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No03_1966_01_15.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No04_1966_01_22.pdf |
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