Letter from Lillie and Matthew Jefferson to John J. Costello (March 14, 1970)
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This is a three-page letter from Lillie B. Jefferson and Matthew Jefferson, parents to Springfield College student Paulette Jefferson, to John J. Costello, Dean of Students at Springfield College, dated March 14, 1970. The letter states their opinion on how SC president Wilbert Locklin and Springfield College should treat the Black students who took over Massasoit Hall on campus to protest their treatment by the college. It also includes a few lines of a Langston Hughes poem.
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