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[Letter of support from Helen Atkinson to Beth Taylor]

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Title	[Letter of support from Helen Atkinson to Beth Taylor]
Date	1963-05-19
Creator	Atkinson, Helen
Biographical/historical note	Helen Atkinson of the Doyleston, Pennsylvania, Quaker meeting wrote to support Guilford College student Beth Taylor's participation in the 1963 civil rights demonstrations.
Subject headings	Guilford College Greensboro (N.C.) -- Race relations Protest movements -- United States
Topics	Business desegregation, protests, and marches, 1963 Race relations at Guilford College
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This letter from Helen Atkinson, of the Doylestown, PA Quaker Meeting was written to Beth Taylor to express her support of Taylor's participation in the recent sit-in demonstrations protesting segregation at the S&W Cafeteria in Greensboro. Taylor, a student at Guilford College was scheduled to stand trial following her arrest during the demonstration on charges of trespassing. Helen Atkinson expressed her hope that the trial would come to a "peaceful settlement based upon human love and brotherhood." This is one of many letters of support Taylor received from her home community following her arrest.
Type	text
Original format	correspondence
Original dimensions	6.045" x 7.853"
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Friends Historical Collection, Hege Library, Guilford College
Source collection	MS91 Huldah (Beth) Taylor Collection
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	GUI_MS91.0947
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	884367914

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