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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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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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Description: | Anne Braden (center) at an unidentified meeting of the SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) leadership. |
Date: | 02 02 1980 |
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Description: | Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o... |
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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... |
Date: | 1982 |
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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... |
Date: | 1983 |
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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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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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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... |
Date: | 05 01 1961 |
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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... |
Date: | 05 26 1959 |
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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... |
Date: | 02 1963 |
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Description: | Diane Nash Bevel stands smiling beneath a small sign that reads: "Jail-Bird for Freedom!". |
Date: | 02 17 1963 |
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Description: | Diane Nash Bevel and Rev. James Bevel look at papers together. |
Date: | 06 1951 |
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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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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... |
Date: | 1960 |
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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." ... |
Date: | 1960 |
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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. ... |
Date: | 1960 |
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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. ... |
Date: | 1960 |
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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. ... |
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