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"No-hitters"

Date: 05 16 1989
Description: Sixth grade class members show off their trophy for being "no-hitters." The plaque reads, "Hitting always hurts."
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Tuskegee Institute Machine Shop

Date: 1902
Description: The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop.
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First and Second Grades at Scribner School

Date: 1908
Description: First and second grade students in their classroom at Scribner School.
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 08 08 1945
Description: Students attending a lecture. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science, Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Madison for several summers...
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University of Wisconsin School for Workers

Date: 07 1945
Description: University of Wisconsin School for Workers, group of students and teacher standing, looking at bulletin board with list of classes/topics. In 1945 the U...
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Mrs. Brewer's Class at Edisto Island

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Description: Mrs. Brewer teaching a citizenship class at Edisto Island. Septima Clark, far left.
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Freedom School

Date: 1964
Description: Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer.
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First Day of Kindergarten

Date: 09 11 1950
Description: Frances Morrison's kindergarten pupils sitting at a table on their first day of school at Longfellow. They are, from left to right, Bonnie Hammersley, Sand...
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Paul Quinn College

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of African American students posing in front of a large brick building. Two turrets flank the arched main entrance, with wings jutti...
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North Alabama Baptist Academy

Date: 1915
Description: View across yard of a group of African American students from the North Alabama Baptist Academy gathered on the building's front steps for an outdoor group...
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Professor C.W. Farr Teaching Agricultural Course

Date: 02 10 1915
Description: Professor C.W. Farr standing on an elevated platform at the front of a classroom at the Burrell School while presenting on the subject of agricultural dive...
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Students at "Muskogee Colored High School"

Date: 1916
Description: African-American students gathered in a room at what the original caption identifies as the "Muskogee Colored High School."
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VA Hospital Patients Win Short Story Contest

Date: 02 24 1954
Description: Luida Sanders (right), a "writer's aide" and a state public health educator, presents first and second prizes to two writers and patients at the Madison V...
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Lucey Campaigning for Vice President

Date: 10 07 1980
Description: Campaigning for vice president, former Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey visited an after-school tutorial program at the Scudder Homes project. Lucey was...
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Freedom School Class

Date: 1964
Description: Groups of students attend class during Freedom Summer as they sit outside in the shade. Likely at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Freedom School Adult Classes

Date: 1964
Description: Out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Freedom School Adult Classes

Date: 1964
Description: Group of people sitting in chairs while attending out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Freedom School Adult Classes

Date: 1964
Description: Out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Freedom School Lessons

Date: 1964
Description: A white male Freedom Summer volunteer teaches African-American students in a Freedom School in Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Freedom School Students Working

Date: 1964
Description: Students sitting at tables in a Freedom Summer school in Palmer's Crossing at Priest Creek Baptist Church. Classes were usually held out-of-doors because o...

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