The little basement room of the county courthouse in northern Florida was crowded as the Madison County commissioners convened for their routine monthly meeting. Target of all eyes as the session began was Dr. Deborah Coggins, 32, blonde and attractive, who was fired from her job as health officer of three counties for lunching privately with the Negro state midwifery supervisor (TiME, Oct. 8). The commissioners had given no official reason for her dismissal, had paid no heed to protests that ranged upward from her physician husband to Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins....
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