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Letter from Charles LaVon Sands, a senior at Northwestern Senior High School in Miami, to Patricia Stephens introducing himself and offering support to her and the seven other jailed students. Sands requests that Patricia write him back and provides her with stamps.

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Sands, Charles LaVon

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Due, Patricia Stephens, 1939-2012

Date

1960-03-29

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Broxton, Barbara
Broxton, John
Carney, Clement
Kruize, Priscilla Stephens, 1938-
Larkins, William
Nance, Angela
Northwestern Senior High School (Miami, Fla.)
Personal correspondence
Steele, Henry Marion

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Tallahassee
Leon County
Miami

I will be writing you and I hope you will write me. Enclosed you will find stamps so that you may write me.

Your friend

Charles LaVon Sands

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Letter from Charles LaVon Sands to Patricia Stephens, March 29, 1960

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Personal correspondence

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Sands, Charles LaVon

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State Archives of Florida, Collection N2015-1

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1960-03-29

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letters (correspondence)

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eng-US

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n2015-1_b001_f13_22

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Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

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Charles C. Sands, 4th

2119 N.W. 70th Street

Miami 44, Florida

3/29/60

Dear Patricia,

I am a student at Northwestern Senior High in Miami, and I want you and your friends to know that I love your feelings in this important phases of our lives.

I guess you want to know a little bit about me, so I will give you a few facts. I am 18 years old and a senior, I am a jazz enthusiast. I would be pleased if you would write me a little about yourself.

I will be writing you and I hope you will write me. Enclosed you will find stamps so that you may write me.

Your friend

Charles LaVon Sands

Subject - Corporate

Northwestern Senior High School (Miami, Fla.)

Subject - Person

Kruize, Priscilla Stephens, 1938-

Carney, Clement

Larkins, William

Steele, Henry Marion

Broxton, John

Nance, Angela

Broxton, Barbara

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Tallahassee (Fla.)

Leon County (Fla.)

Miami (Fla.)

To

Due, Patricia Stephens, 1939-2012

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Sands, Charles LaVon. Letter from Charles LaVon Sands to Patricia Stephens, March 29, 1960. 1960-03-29. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/331083>, accessed 30 October 2025.

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Sands, Charles LaVon. Letter from Charles LaVon Sands to Patricia Stephens, March 29, 1960. 1960-03-29. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/331083>

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