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Letter of encouragement from high school student Judy Fox in Brooklyn to Patricia Stephens stating that she read about Patricia in the CORE-lator and writes that her classmates are aware of picketing against Woolworth's.

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Fox, Judy

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Due, Patricia Stephens, 1939-2012

Date

1960-04-25

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CORE-lator (periodical)
Congress of Racial Equality
F.W. Woolworth Company
High school students--Political activity
Mass media and race relations
Robinson, James R.
Solidarity

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Brooklyn (N.Y.)

Monday April 25, 1960

Dear Patricia,

I read your letter to Mr. Robinson in the 'Core-Lator' today and I think that you and your fellow students are doing a wonderful thing.

It's about time that Negroes got full privileges everywhere and I think you are doing a great deal to make this come about.

I'm from Brooklyn, New York and just about all the kids in my high school know about what you've done. Woolworth's is boycotted and picketed and I believe will have to change its policy soon.

I am really very grateful to

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Letter from Judy Fox to Patricia Stephens, April 25, 1960

Subject

High school students--Political activity

Mass media and race relations

Solidarity

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Fox, Judy

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State Archives of Florida, Collection N2015-1

Date

1960-04-25

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letters (correspondence)

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eng-US

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Text

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Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

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Monday April 25, 1960

Dear Patricia,

I read your letter to Mr. Robinson in the 'Core-Lator' today and I think that you and your fellow students are doing a wonderful thing.

It's about time that Negroes got full privileges everywhere and I think you are doing a great deal to make this come about.

I'm from Brooklyn, New York and just about all the kids in my high school know about what you've done. Woolworth's is boycotted and picketed and I believe will have to change its policy soon.

I am really very grateful to

you and your friends for what you have done towards ending discrimination. I think the combination of you students who have gone to jail and CORE's activities around the country should and will end segregated lunch counters and all other rights which belong to any U.S. citizen.

Very sincerely,

Judy Fox

Subject - Corporate

F.W. Woolworth Company

CORE-lator (periodical)

Congress of Racial Equality

Subject - Person

Robinson, James R.

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Brooklyn (N.Y.)

To

Due, Patricia Stephens, 1939-2012

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Fox, Judy. Letter from Judy Fox to Patricia Stephens, April 25, 1960. 1960-04-25. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/331162>, accessed 15 September 2025.

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Fox, Judy. Letter from Judy Fox to Patricia Stephens, April 25, 1960. 1960-04-25. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/331162>

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