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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A welfare demonstration led by Father James Groppi (center) in the Wisconsin Assembly chambers. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber protesting welfare cuts. Father Groppi is seated on the lef... |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates, apparently wearing press badges, standing outdoors talking with an unidentified man. L.C. Bates, who is wearing a camera, is ap... |
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| Description: | A group of Civil Rights activists, including Septima Clark (left), posing in front of the Highlander Library. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a student protest on the Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wiley Branton (left), the Little Rock NAACP attorney, and Thurgood Marshall, the special counsel of the NAACP, at the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on the ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
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| Description: | Tom Ludwig and Vida Cox [Ludwig], a neighbor of Highlander Folk School, sitting in a Jeep together after having been married. The couple met while at the s... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors. |
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| Description: | A meeting at Highlander Folk School. Guy Carawan is holding a banjo on far left. Septima Clark is standing third from the left. Matt Sturgis, holding an ac... |
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| Description: | Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislatur... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ... |
| Date: | 06 27 1964 |
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| Description: | The Mt. Zion church burned down on June 17, 1964, prompting Freedom Summer volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to travel to view... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips (left) is marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council. In the background is the Lincoln Memorial. Other unidentified youth council members... |
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| Description: | Five women are sitting and one man is standing in the Highlander Library. The UN Charter is displayed behind them. |
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