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Robert Tappan Osborn

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A Noteworthy Sit-in

Osborn, Dorothy Hurley · 2005

Dorothy Hurley Osborn's memoir of a civil rights sit-in in Chapel Hill and a trial in Orange County, involving the author and Robert Tappan Osborn. Published in 2005.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Osborn, Robert Tappan, 1926-.

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