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Hank Aaron at Bat

Date: 04 01 1955
Description: Henry "Hank" Aaron at bat during a Milwaukee Braves pre-season game.
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Henry Mathews

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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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Charles Green

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Description: Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
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Bernice Robinson

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Description: Bernice Robinson with students at first citizenship school at Johns Island.
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Peter D. Thomas

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Description: Seated portrait of Peter D. Thomas (1847-1925) of Racine. Thomas was an escaped slave who joined the 15th Wisconsin Regiment during its service in Tennesse...
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Myles Horton

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Description: Seated group observes Myles Horton making notes.
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UPWA Delegates

Date: 1957
Description: UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) delegates at 1957 convention with Herbert Hill. From left to right are Ollie Webb, Richard Miller, Charles Ha...
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The Right To Vote Rally

Date: 10 29 1959
Description: Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro...
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Pleasant Ridge Schoolhouse

Date: 1890
Description: Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop...
Magazine or Periodical

"Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life" Cover Art

Date: 07 1926
Description: Front cover of "Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life" showing an illustration of a woman in an evening dress with her cheek resting on her shoulder, and peop...
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UPWA Vice President Addie Wyatt

Date: 12 1978
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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School Desegregation Pickets

Date: 1964
Description: A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation.
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L.C. Bates

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of L.C. Bates, editor and publisher of the the "Arkansas State Press," a crusading Little Rock newspaper and the husband of the Ark...
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"In Dahomey" Stars

Date: 1902
Description: George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African...
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Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
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Herbert March Speaking at Rally

Date: 01 1952
Description: Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather.
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Black Civil War Soldier

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Description: Full-length portrait of an African American Civil War soldier from Hughes and Meltzer, "A pictorial History of the Negro in America."
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Black Civil War Soldiers

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Description: Two Black Civil War soldiers from Hughes and Metzer "Pictorial History of the Negro in America."
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CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
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Working on a Chain-Gang

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Description: African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia.

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