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Remembering the Fallen

Friends and Supporters

Gary Simpson

Gary Simpson was a human rights lawyer who made his services available to UM political activists.

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Sammie Abdullah Abbott

Sammie Abbott helped design the classic Radical Guide to the University of Maryland and freely shared his professional knowledge of graphic design to UM activists.

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Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall was denied entrance to the University of Maryland in 1930. He later helped Donald Murray’s legal challenge to UM’s Jim Crow admissions policies in 1935.

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