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| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A winter scene with excited children on a toboggan. |
| Date: | 10 31 1977 |
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| Description: | Thousands of people from the inner city flocked to a Halloween Party given to help keep children off the street during the holiday. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Ki... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Scene from the popular television mini-series "Roots," showing actor LeVar Burton in chains portraying the slave Kunte Kinte, who had recently arrived on a... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Actors Ben Vereen (left), as Chicken George, and Georg Stanford Brown as Tom, in a television still from the popular 1977 television mini-series "Roots". T... |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a concert by Ike and Tina Turner at the Dane County Coliseum, in Madison, Wisconsin, June 26th, 1971. Features a picture of Tina Tur... |
| Date: | 06 1978 |
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| Description: | Two boys are in the midst of a game of tug of war. They're dressed in overalls, jeans and t-shirts and are in full KISS makeup. KISS was a rock band which ... |
| Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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| Description: | Full-length group portrait of a bride and her mother and father walking towards the center aisle of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House as the ceremo... |
| Date: | 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips is embracing Angie Brooks, former United Nations representative to Liberia. Ms. Brooks is wearing a fur coat, turban and earrings. Both women ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is seated with his family. His ... |
| Date: | 01 11 1972 |
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| Description: | A family with four children sitting in their living room. Caption reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Boyzie Hughley, 8120 W. Beechwood Ave., sat in their living room wit... |
| Date: | 07 26 1977 |
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| Description: | A young man is hammering a nail into a pallet. Caption reads: "Darnell Yarbrough, 18, worked on wooden pallets at the JA [Junior Achievement] workshop." |
| Date: | 10 13 1977 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hardhat and carrying a tool is walking along railroad tracks. Caption reads: "A railroad worker walked along a line in the Menomonee Valley... |
| Date: | 04 26 1979 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is smiling and holding a book about Diana Ross. Caption reads: "Dressed in Diana Ross style, Denita Love, 23, wore a sophistica... |
| Date: | 03 30 1979 |
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| Description: | Two women in costumes posing and stretching out their arms towards the camera. Caption reads: "Phyllis Bickham (left) and Amber Kelly will alternate in the... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of James "John" Adams Riley aka Snowball. |
| Date: | 10 01 1977 |
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| Description: | Several African-American teenagers are standing outside a building, some wearing coats and some under umbrellas. A sign reads: "Fight for the Right." Capti... |
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