[News Script: Sit-in]

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about students of Southern Methodist University staging a sit-in protest of the University Drug Store, which refused to serve an African-American SMU student at their lunch counter.

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4 p. ; 28 cm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) January 9, 1961.

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about students of Southern Methodist University staging a sit-in protest of the University Drug Store, which refused to serve an African-American SMU student at their lunch counter.

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4 p. ; 28 cm.

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  • Preferred Citation: NBC 5/KXAS News Scripts (AR0787), University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • January 9, 1961

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Sit-in], item, January 9, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc940941/: accessed December 9, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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