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"MOTHER" OF HOUSTON'S 1960 SIT-IN MOVEMENT PASSES AWAY [View all]
http://abc13.com/uncategorized/houston-civil-rights-pioneer-passes-away/1179691/Holly Adrienne Hogrobrooks, a civil rights pioneer who helped organize Houston first sit-in has passed away, she was 75.
Hogrobrooks efforts in organizing a series of lunch counter demonstrations at supermarkets and drug stores across the city in 1960 helped end segregation in Houston.
Hogrobrooks efforts in organizing a series of lunch counter demonstrations at supermarkets and drug stores across the city in 1960 helped end segregation in Houston.
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