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| Date: | 12 1978 |
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| Description: | Addie Wyatt, of the United Packinghouse Worker's Association, is shown seated at a desk speaking during the Merger Talks. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of staff from Highlander School, including Andrew Young (far left), Septima Clark (4th from left), Aimee Horton, Bernice Robinson, and Guy C... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting, wearing beaded necklaces and long earrings, and wrapped in shawls. Carrie Elk (ENooKah... |
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| Description: | Frank Glovan (wearing a watch on his wrist) president of Teamster Local 407 of Cleveland, listens intently during a special strike meeting called by member... |
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| Description: | A group of flood victims stand in the rain after (Hurricane) Betsy at Algers Naval Base, where conditions were inadequate for them. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Five foundry workers at Fairbanks, Morse & Company, taking a break just outside the door of the building. Workers names: Solomon Deberry, Curtis Barber, tw... |
| Date: | 2010 |
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| Description: | Interior view of La Crosse library. Two men are talking near a display of books. A balcony in the background has a display of quilts. |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates is seated at a bar next to an unidentified man. She is wearing a black dress and is holding a cocktail. |
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| Description: | Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | In the summer of 1964, Freedom Summer volunteers pose in front of a campaign poster for Victoria Jackson Gray, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candida... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Sandra Adickes (right), Freedom Summer volunteer teacher at Palmer's Crossing Freedom School. Students (left) are Rita Mae Crawford and Jimella Stokes. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Three people stand outdoors near a truck acting out a group improvisation of a slave revolt. They were attending Freedom School during Freedom Summer at Pa... |
| Date: | 07 14 1964 |
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| Description: | View through fence of Pete Seeger and an unidentified woman stand outdoors near two parked cars. He was there for a concert he played in a church during Fr... |
| Date: | 07 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger walking outdoors through a crowd carrying two instrument cases. The concert took place during Freedom Summer near Hattiesburg. "Pete Seeger san... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of adults and children at an impromptu concert held outdoors during Freedom Summer outside of the Freedom School at Priest Creek Baptist Church. Li... |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Teachers at the Freedom School convention during Freedom Summer. The woman in the center is Liz Fusco, one of the coordinators of the Freedom School projec... |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman speak at a podium in front of a mural at the Freedom School convention during Freedom Summer. |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips in a group. The man and woman in the foreground are shaking hands. The men are wearing suits and the women are wearing dresses. Several have n... |
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| Description: | Photograph of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commission. Ms. Watts sits on a chair with her hands clasped. She is wearing a str... |
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