My grandfather's guns : a rememberance of the Torkington, Cummings, and Rumble families in Western New York State, 1836-2003 / by Roy Bernard Torkington. c2003.

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My grandfather's guns : a rememberance of the Torkington, Cummings, and Rumble families in Western New York State, 1836-2003 / by Roy Bernard Torkington. c2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57028185

15 leaves ; 28 cm.

Rochester Public Library, Central Library of Rochester and Monore County

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Rochester Public Library, Central Library of Rochester and Monore County

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Torkington, Roy Bernard, 1940-

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Roy Torkington (b. 1940) was assigned to voter registration efforts in Leflore County, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer. On June 25, 1964, three Itta Bena men accosted Torkington and two other volunteers, threatening their lives. The men were arrested and prosecuted under the 1960 Civil Rights Act, demonstrating determined federal action against voter discrimination in the South. From the description of Torkington (Roy) Freedom Summer collection, 1964. (University of Southern Missi...