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"Hooded and Armed Menacing of Petitioners Exposed as Soph Prank"
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"Hooded and Armed Menacing of Petitioners Exposed as Soph Prank"

October 3, 1955 Reconstruction to Present (1865-)

Daily Princetonian article reporting on an undergraduate "prank" where students dressed in KKK robes threatened classmates petitioning the acquittal of Emmett Till's murderers in 1955.

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Creator John W. Milton Jr. Source

"Hooded and Armed Menacing of Petitioners Exposed as Soph Prank," The Daily Princetonian, 3 October 1955, p. 1, 3.

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The Daily Princetonian

Format PDF Item Type Still Image Newspaper The Daily Princetonian Place of Publication Princeton, NJ
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