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- <text id=91TT0646>
- <title>
- Mar. 25, 1991: Died:LeRoy Collins
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 62
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- <p> DIED. LeRoy Collins, 82, Governor of Florida from 1955 to
- '61 and an early proponent of racial justice in the "New
- South"; in Tallahassee. After the civil rights movement began,
- Collins called for peaceful integration of public facilities
- and schools. Besides championing civil rights, Collins was
- widely credited with modernizing Florida's education and
- health-care systems.
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