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SCEF Speakers Bureau

Date: 1971
Description: Civil rights and anti-war activists Carl Braden and Virginia Collins being interviewed during a speaking tour sponsored by the Southern Conference Educatio...
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Anne Braden and Julian Bond

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Description: Civil rights activists Bob Cunningham, Anne Braden, and Julian Bond during an event at the Braden Center.
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Dombrowski Leaves Jail

Date: 1948
Description: James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol...
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Anne Braden

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Description: Civil rights activist Anne Braden speaking to a rally. Behind her is the Rev. Louis Coleman, also a local activist.
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UFCW Strike

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Description: Strike of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 227 against a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Identified among the picketers are Rev. Charles...
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SCHW Convention

Date: 11 1946
Description: Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare gather outside the convention hall.
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Mary McLeod Bethune at Civil Rights Meeting

Date: 11 1946
Description: Mary McLeod Bethune, noted civil rights leader and educator, is introduced to the audience at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Ri...
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SCHW Delegates Vote

Date: 11 1946
Description: Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) vote on a resolution.
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SNCC Group Near Burned Church

Date: 1962
Description: Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia.
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Willie Rudd

Date: 1991
Description: Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i...
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Gwen Patten

Date: 1991
Description: Gwen Patton reporting on the Southern Rainbow Education Project to a conference called by the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC).
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SOC Leaders

Date: 09 1993
Description: Scott Douglas and Connie Tucker (right), leaders of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC), at an unidentified event.
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Modjeska Simpkins at SOC Meeting

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Description: Modjeska Simpkins (center) one of the early leaders of the NAACP at an unidentified meeting of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC). Among the other SO...
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Anne Braden and SOC

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Description: Anne Braden (center) at an unidentified meeting of the SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) leadership.
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Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1982
Description: Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi...
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Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1983
Description: Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought...
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Tote Bags for Freedom

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Description: Women of the Haywood Handicrafters, a civil rights project established for black women in Haywood County, Tennessee. Many of these women had been subject ...
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Anne Braden and Ben Chavis

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Description: Anne Braden and Rev. Ben Chavis at an SOC (Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Human Welfare) event. Braden and Chavis were founding members a...
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Diane Nash Bevel, Jailbird for Freedom

Date: 02 1963
Description: Diane Nash Bevel stands smiling beneath a small sign that reads: "Jail-Bird for Freedom!".
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Diane Nash Bevel and Reverend James Bevel

Date: 02 17 1963
Description: Diane Nash Bevel and Rev. James Bevel look at papers together.

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