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This article describes the "Freedom Schools" set up by FSU and FAMU students to protest the segregation and poor conditions of Leon County grade schools.

Article describes the strike of segregated county grade schools by Tallahassee parents and university students, in objection to the county's failure to desegregate or improve school conditions.

An opinion column asking that the school board treat people without regard to race.

Article discussing Ronald L. Williams' summer work in the Air Force Physical Standards Laboratory at Cape Kennedy. Williams enrolled at FSU in 1964, graduating with a degree in Physics in 1969.

Contains the editorial, "Students, Too," in which the author cites the refusal of Tallahassee restaurant owners to serve black FSU students as "senseless discrimination."

The second page includes extensions of articles reporting on the protests…

Includes the article, "Student, Former Student Among Three Arrested," the arrests occurring for public disturbance at the segregated Dobbs House diner.

Includes comments from people for and against restaurant integration.

Page contains the article, "Three FSU Students Still in Jail." The students were arrested for their involvement in protesting segregated institutions.

Page includes article announcing that students will picket off-campus restaurants starting at 11:30am.

These pages contain several editorials about picketing segregated off-campus restaurants and theaters, and the actions of the Tallahassee City Commission against the demonstrators.