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"Death Comes to Student Ohl"
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"Death Comes to Student Ohl"

13 June 1895 Reconstruction to Present (1865-)

Newspaper article describing Princeton students' plans to "boycott" African American laborers in town after the death of classmate Frederick Ohl in 1895.

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“Death Comes to Student Ohl,” The New York Herald, 13 June 1895.

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