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“The Student Leadership Conference made it crystal clear that current sit-ins and other demonstrations are concerned with something much bigger than a hamburger or even a giant-sized Coke.”

Source: “Bigger Than a Hamburger”, The Southern Patriot, June 1960

Context Written after the April 1960 student conference she organised at Shaw University in Raleigh, which led to the founding of SNCC.

Ella BakerUnited States · 1903–1986

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