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Protest March

Date: 
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...
Photograph

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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Wilkinson and Braden in Handcuffs

Date: 05 01 1961
Description: Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden at the time of their surrender to federal authorities. Both men had refused to testify to before the House Un-American Acti...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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!".
Photograph

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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Anne and Carl Braden at a Grave

Date: 06 1951
Description: Anne and Carl Braden stand at the grave of her ancestor Ann Poague McGinty. McGinty was the first white woman to settle in Kentucky.
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Woman Distributing Leaflets

Date: 
Description: A Caucasian woman, identified as Barbara Deming, hands leaflets to an African American family on a front porch. The location is tentatively identified as G...
Poster

Labor History Week

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background for Labor History Week with an illustration at the bottom of a man standing near a sign that reads: "On Strike." ...
Poster

Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...
Photograph

Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...
Poster

Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...
Photograph

Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...
Photograph

Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...
Poster

Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...
Poster

Law & Order From Saigon to Orangeburg

Date: 1968
Description: Poster with black ink on an orange background. Text at top reads: "Law & Order," and text at the bottom reads: "From Saigon to Orangeburg." There are two i...
Book or Pamphlet

Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: Two boys sitting on a bench titled: "Posin"; a group portrait of children;...
Book or Pamphlet

Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: a man sitting with a dog on his lap in a subway car titled: "Man and Dog";...
Book or Pamphlet

Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: view looking out of an open doorway toward two children titled: "Like Birt...

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