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Rosa Parks at Clinton Students Gathering

Date: 1956
Description: Rosa Parks attending a Highlander Christmas vacation event for Clinton Black High School Students, the first integrated in the South.
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Birmingham Movement Leaders

Date: 04 1962
Description: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, (in bow tie) and Rev. J.S. Phifer, congratulate each other after their release from jail. The two men had been imprisoned together...
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Circus Parade Calliope Truck

Date: 07 04 1963
Description: A calliope truck with text reading "Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. Presents / A Day in Old Milwaukee / July 4th / Featuring Schlitz Circus Parade" drives down a ...
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Downtown Circus Parade

Date: 1963
Description: A police officer directs a parade of circus wagons carried on International trucks through downtown streets. The 25-piece parade originated at Circus World...
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Rounders Club Christmas Party

Date: 12 17 1953
Description: Three members of the Rounders Club meeting at the annual Christmas party held in the Heidelberg Hofbrau. In the dining room sitting at a table, Lew Burdett...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Police Chief Bruce Weatherly assists his wife, Inez, in the serving line at the city officials and staff picnic hosted at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's summer h...
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Honorary Membership for Actor

Date: 10 1955
Description: Officer Harold Kurth (right) presented an honorary membership in the Madison policeman's Protective Association to Ben Alexander (left) who plays Detective...
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We Saw You Before Leaving for Europe

Date: 04 1958
Description: A scroll from the state of Wisconsin is being presented to 18-year-old Pat Stoycheff by Chief Justice John Martin. The scroll will introduce Pat to new fri...

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