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| Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of two people's feet taken at the Meinecke Avenue School. |
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| Description: | Image of Frederick Douglass taken from his autobiography "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass...". |
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| Description: | Dr. DuBois seated at his desk at Atlanta University where he initiated and edited the Atlanta University Studies on Negro Americans. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Butts posing outside the Wisconsin Historical Society where he worked as a messenger. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Vel Phillips during her tenure as Wisconsin's Secretary of State. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a well-dressed, African-American man, identified as H.F. "Frank" Lyons. He is wearing a suit jacket, vest, and necktie. Lyons was the ... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of an unidentified African-American man with curly hair and a moustache. He is wearing a suit jacket and vest. |
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| Description: | Holiday card depicting an African American Santa Claus, wearing the traditional red suit, mittens and hat with white fur trim. He is carrying a sack over h... |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Bob (Robert) Moses speaking at the Freedom School Convention during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Two women clap and sing at the Freedom School Convention during the Freedom Summer civil rights project. Behind them is a mural, and a banner that says "St... |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A group claps and sings at the Freedom School Convention during the Freedom Summer civil rights project. |
| Date: | 11 02 1965 |
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| Description: | Pictured, from background to foreground: Bobby Feinglass; John Lewis, noted politician and civil rights leader; and Alicia Kaplow, SNCC (Student Nonviolent... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of James Farmer, civil rights activist and co-founder of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Richard Haley, civil rights activist and southern regional director of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commission. She is wearing a dark dress or blouse and a necklace and ... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Vel Phillips in a white blouse posing outdoors next to a railing. |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips wearing a floral patterned dress sitting at a table next to her husband, W. Dale Phillips, who is wearing a suit and eyeglasses. |
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