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  2. <title>
  3. Mar. 25, 1991: Died:LeRoy Collins
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991               
  7. Mar. 25, 1991  Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick       
  8. </history>
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
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  12. MILESTONES, Page 62
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  14. <p>     DIED. LeRoy Collins, 82, Governor of Florida from 1955 to
  15. '61 and an early proponent of racial justice in the "New
  16. South"; in Tallahassee. After the civil rights movement began,
  17. Collins called for peaceful integration of public facilities
  18. and schools. Besides championing civil rights, Collins was
  19. widely credited with modernizing Florida's education and
  20. health-care systems.
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