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Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Bradens

Date: 04 30 1961
Description: Pictured left to right are James Dombrowski, Carl and Anne Braden, Frank Wilkinson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta King at a reception in Atlanta, Geo...
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Student Leadership Conference

Date: 05 04 1962
Description: Student Leadership Conference, May 4-6, including Ella Baker (front row, far left), Carl Braden (second row, hands clasped around knees), Anne Braden (seco...
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SSOC Continuations Committee Meeting

Date: 04 1964
Description: Founding members of the Southern Students Organizing Committee (SSOC) at a committee meeting, discussing ways to organize white students in the South to pr...
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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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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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Carl and Anne Braden

Date: 1948
Description: Informal portrait of social activists Carl and Anne Braden taken about the time of their marriage.
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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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UFCW Strike

Date: 10 1981
Description: Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253.
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Garment Workers Strike

Date: 1972
Description: Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on strike against the Kellwood Company.
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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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Gainesville 8

Date: 03 06 1973
Description: Seven members of the Gainesville 8, members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War who were charged attempting to disrupt the 1972 Republican convention, ...
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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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Chinese Sporting Goods Factory

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Description: Propaganda photograph received from China Features in Peking by the Southern Patriot newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky. The photograph illustrat...
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Protest March

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Description: Unidentified protest march, with the banner of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC) in front. The banner of the Milwauk...
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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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Eleanor Roosevelt Speaks for SCEF

Date: 05 26 1959
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particul...
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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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Rosa Parks

Date: 10 1963
Description: Informal portrait of Rosa Parks at a event.

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