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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of two people's feet taken at the Meinecke Avenue School. |
| 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 1912 |
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| Description: | Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road. |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 03 13 1972 |
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| Description: | Original Falk caption reads, "Largest bevel gears manufactured by Falk to date. This photograph was taken in the Heat Treat Department." Male employees in ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1978 |
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| Description: | Anotha Burt, a Falk employee, inspects a large walk gear. This particular gear was purchased by Page Engineering. Original Falk caption reads, "Large walk ... |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council demonstrating outside the Eagles Club at night beneath a marquee advertising a Duke Ellington performance. |
| Date: | 01 1935 |
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| Description: | Sewing project for Milwaukee County women to make and repair clothing for relief families. |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 50 at a ceremony marking the closure of the Swift & Company plant in Milwaukee. The local was o... |
| Date: | 04 1974 |
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| Description: | Hilton Hanna (left), a national leader in the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, swears in the new officers of Local 248 in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Group of people, probably including NAACP Youth Council members, picketing outside Marc's Big Boy restaurant. Lloyd Barbee is second from the left. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi sitting with several of his fellow marchers, some in Milwaukee N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council shirts. Groppi has taken off one of his shoes. |
| Date: | 09 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Protesters at a rally for fair housing. One man is holding a sign that reads: "We Demand Fair Housing Now," while others behind him are using a bullhorn. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of protesters march down a street, led by a car. They are protesting school segregation. |
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