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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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Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
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Pepper and Liberal Admirers

Date: 11 1946
Description: Senator Claude Pepper of Florida greets admirers at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Pepper was present to deliver the k...
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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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Mary McLeod Bethune

Date: 11 1946
Description: Mary McLeod Bethune (left), noted educator and civil rights leader, at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Rights. The woman to her...
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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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Aubrey Williams at SCHW Meeting

Date: 11 1946
Description: Aubrey Williams (seated at right), who would become president of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) at the annual convention of the Southern Con...
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James Forman

Date: 06 1962
Description: James Forman in a SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) office.
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Steelworkers Strike

Date: 1980
Description: Distribution of picket signs to striking members of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8888. The local was on strike against Tenneco.
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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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Fred Shuttlesworth

Date: 02 03 1964
Description: The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth speaks to the 1964 annual meeting of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) after being elected president of the organ...
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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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Rev. Joseph Lowery

Date: 1991
Description: Rev. Joseph Lowery, minister, civil rights leader, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), speaking to a conference sponsored...
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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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Rev. C.T. Vivian

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Description: Rev. C.T. Vivian, a nationally prominent civil rights leader. Although unidentified, it is thought that he is speaking at an event sponsored by the Nation...
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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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Andrew Wade and His Family

Date: 05 16 1954
Description: Andrew Wade and his wife and daughter stand in front of their house. Their front windows have been damaged by rocks and rifle shots.
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Andrew Wade House Bombing

Date: 06 27 1954
Description: Police officer inspecting the damage to the home of Andrew Wade and his family after it was bombed.

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