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ShutterButton: Students Stand Up In The '60s

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Instead of spending today skimming that hundred-plus page reading you were supposed to do before your first class last week (oops), take a minute to reflect on what happened 42 years ago right here on campus. Check out this vintage 1968 pic taken at the corner of 36th and Walnut showing Penn African American students protesting the assassination of MLK, Jr. Want more on Penn protests? Check out the University Archives or the Penn Current for more on Penn in the 1960s.

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