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Vel Phillips

Date: 08 11 1961
Description: Vel Phillips wearing a striped dress and a tag that reads "We're here for Wisconsin Human Rights Legislation." Phillips was taking part in a sit-in in supp...
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Civil Rights Rally at Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 06 13 1961
Description: Large group of protesters in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda with many carrying signs in favor of Civil Rights for African-Americans. One man holds a s...
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Vel Phillips and Keynote Speakers

Date: 03 12 1980
Description: The Minority Engineering Students Luncheon Keynote Speakers. From the left are: Al Hampton, Vel Phillips, Fred Johnson, W.R. Marshall, Ninenee Coleman, UW ...
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Governor Walter J. Kohler Jr. Donates Blood at the UW

Date: 04 22 1955
Description: Walter Kohler Jr. lying on a cot, while two women, one in a nurse's uniform, stand beside him on the left. The nurse holds a glass bottle used to collect b...
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Wisconsin Secretary of State Vel Phillips

Date: 02 22 1979
Description: View across desk filled with papers towards Vel Phillips sitting while serving as Wisconsin's Secretary of State.
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The Paraphernalia

Date: 1967
Description: View from audience of the band "The Paraphernalia" performing. From the left is: a young man is playing the drums, two young women each playing an electric...
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Meinhardt Raabe as Little Oscar at Easter Seals Camp Wawbeek

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe as Little Oscar standing with a group of children, some in wheelchairs, at Easter Seals Camp Wawbeek. The Wienermobile is in the background...

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