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Portrait of Joe Bear Heart and Wife Posing Outdoors

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on the ground in a clearing with trees in the background. She is sitting cross-legged and is holding an ea...
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Joe Bear Heart near Table of Drying Corn

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a hat posing standing behind a table loaded with kernels of corn on a cloth drying by a wooden building. The man is...
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Rich Keane Saxophonist with Stophe

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: View from side of stage of Rich Keane, wearing a felt bucket hat and a tie-dyed shirt, performing with Strophe band at the Sound Storm music festival. Stew...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Men with rakes and wearing waders work knee-deep in water harvesting cranberries on a flooded marsh.
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Frame 07: Destroyed Church

Date: 09 20 1964
Description: A man stands inside the ruins of a church building. When printed in the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund Report, vol. II, no. 1, this photograph...
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Frame 14: Sick Man with Crutch

Date: 1964
Description: A man wearing overalls sits on a porch.
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Frame 15: Concerned Father Holding Child

Date: 1964
Description: A man holds a young girl in his arms.
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Frame 19: "We Want to Vote"

Date: 1964
Description: Two men holding protest signs are walking down a sidewalk past a white police officer who is holding a bullhorn at a Greenwood Freedom Day. In the backgrou...
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Frame 20: People Lined Up At Courthouse and Cops

Date: 1964
Description: A line of predominantly African-American people likely outside of the Leflore County Courthouse, probably at a voter registration drive. Caucasian law enfo...
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Frame 23: Local Man Speaking at Meeting

Date: 1964
Description: A man stands with his arm raised and his finger pointed upward at a mass meeting.
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Frame 27: Integrated Canvassing

Date: 1964
Description: Two women stand on the porch of a home. Three men, probably Freedom Summer volunteers, are talking to them.
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Frame 32: Men and Women Working on Construction Project

Date: 1964
Description: Three people work on a community construction project. All three support a beam while the man in the foreground hammers a nail into it.
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Frame 33: Men and Women Working on Construction Project

Date: 07 1964
Description: A group of men and women work on a community construction project. Several support the framing of a wall, while a man straddles the top of the frame to ham...
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Frame 36: People Entering Meeting House

Date: 1964
Description: A group of men and women talk outside on the steps of a building and in the open doorway likely attending a mass meeting.
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Frame 41: Two FDP (Freedom Democratic Party) Candidates

Date: 1964
Description: Two men wearing suits stand in front of a crowd of people.
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Frame 42: Man , Suitcase, and Bus

Date: 1964
Description: A man stands outdoors next to a motorcoach with an open door. There is luggage on the curb next to him.
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Frame 45: Mr. Steptoe and Microphones Speaking at Rally

Date: 1964
Description: E.W. Steptoe speaks into several microphones, while several people look on in the background.
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Frame 46: Turnbow and Other Delegate on Boardwalk

Date: 1964
Description: In the foreground are Hartman Turnbow and another MFDP delegate. Several men and women outdoors wear badges on their chests, and patriotic banners and fla...
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Frame 47: FDP Supporters Demonstrating on Boardwalk

Date: 08 1964
Description: An integrated group of mostly young people sitting on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Many of them are holding signs showing support for the Mississippi Freed...
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Frame 59: Freedom Vote

Date: 1964
Description: A crowd outdoors at a freedom vote, a mock election designed to include African-Americans who were unable to register to vote.

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