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Emily Thomas Ellis

Collection:: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Oral History Project Collection
Title:: Emily Thomas Ellis
Date of Original:: 1995-07-12
Subject:: Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham
Birmingham (Ala.). Police Department
Location:: United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
Medium:: oral histories (literary works)
Type:: MovingImage
Format:: video/mp4
Description:: Emily Thomas Ellis discusses being arrested for participating in a sit-in at Newberry's department store. She was also injured in a large student march in 1963.
Metadata URL:: http://bcriohp.org/items/show/111
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)
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