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| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 04 09 1935 |
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| Description: | Workers unloading supplies from an International B-4 truck for a still operated by Turpentine and Rosin Factors, Inc. in Jacksonville. |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond (b.1862), right, with Ollie Greene Lewis. |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, fr... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Governor Warren P. Knowles reaches up to touch the hand of a girl at the Lincoln Memorial on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The girl seated, c... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of workers grinding fertilizer with a power hammer mill. Original captions reads: "The Fish Meal Company of Fernandina, Florida, uses this Interna... |
| Date: | 03 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Milwaukee Braves outfielder Henry "Hank" Aaron in his baseball uniform. 1954 was Aaron's rookie season. |
| Date: | 04 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Henry Aaron in a Milwaukee Braves uniform. |
| Date: | 04 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders profile view of Henry Aaron holding a baseball bat. |
| Date: | 04 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders profile view of Henry Aaron holding a baseball bat. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of two people's feet taken at the Meinecke Avenue School. |
| Date: | 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Barbee posing in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | African American man operating an experimental two-row cotton picker in a field. |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Vel Phillips in her judges's black robe with an American flag behind her. She was the 13th District Children's Court judge, the first woman and... |
| Date: | 08 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Jubilant Proxmire supporters dance in the streets in Milwaukee after Democrat William Proxmire won the special election to fill the seat left vacant by the... |
| Date: | 10 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of African American families sitting along a long table, celebrating a birthday party at the Workmens Circle Clubhouse, 4... |
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