LinkLinks The Advocate: Janette Harris, among students expelled from Southern after Baton Rouge sit-in, dies in Washington By Editor On Nov 4, 2018 77 Share Janette Hoston Harris, whose arrest during a lunch counter sit-in led to her expulsion from Southern University in 1960, was being remembered for her role in the civil rights movement following her death Friday in Washington. She was 79. … She took on many roles in Washington throughout her professional life, working as an instructor of African American history at the University of the District of Columbia, becoming the city’s historian and serving as the president of Carter G. Woodson’s Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in Washington. Janette Hoston HarrisObituaries 77 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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