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Madison Pickets Against Segregated Lunch Counters

Date: 02 27 1960
Description: Picketers walk the sidewalk in front of the F.W. Woolworth store on the Capitol Square. The protest was against the company's segregated lunch counter poli...
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Protest Rally on Library Mall

Date: 03 03 1960
Description: A crowd of five hundred University of Wisconsin students, some carrying protest signs, attend a rally on Library Mall. They are demonstrating peacefully ag...
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University of Wisconsin Students Leave on Peace Walk

Date: 03 25 1961
Description: University of Wisconsin students John Peters and Bram Luckom leave Madison on a peace walk. Peters plans to walk to Rockford, IL and Luckom plans to walk t...
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Fidel Castro Rally and Protest on U.W. Campus

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union theater supporting Fidel Castro and protesting the ...
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Fidel Castro Rally and Protest on University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union theater supporting Fidel Castro and protesting the ...
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Race Bias Against U.W. Instructor

Date: 09 09 1961
Description: A group of students from the University of Wisconsin Student Council on Civil Rights picket a house on 540 West Mifflin Street and help to move out the pos...
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National Farmers Organization Demonstration

Date: 04 08 1964
Description: Part of the crowd of National Farmers Organization demonstrators who assembled near the Oscar Mayer and Company plant as a "show of strength" to get higher...
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Gov. Wallace Given Good Reception Here

Date: 04 03 1964
Description: Three people of the 18 protestors outside of the Cuba Club restaurant. A large protest sign states, "Wallace: Blood is on your hands." The protestors were...
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Beloit Students March to Capitol in Support of Civil Rights

Date: 03 10 1965
Description: Gov. Warren Knowles, right, is shown addressing the 175 Beloit College students who undertook a two-day march to the capitol from their campus 50 miles awa...
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Demonstration Commemorating Hiroshima Bombing

Date: 08 06 1965
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison student holding a placard in front of a speaker at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol commemorating the atom bo...
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Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Review

Date: 05 24 1957
Description: Anti-military protestors demonstrating outside U.W. Camp Randall stadium during a review of ROTC cadets. Posters challenge compulsory service in the state ...
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Kenosha Truck Drivers Protest at State Capitol

Date: 12 05 1960
Description: A group of truck drivers from Kenosha picketing at the State Capitol. They are protesting Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) rate orders involving transp...

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