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| Date: | 04 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Henry "Hank" Aaron at bat during a Milwaukee Braves pre-season game. |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | L.C. and Daisy Bates watching television with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus on the screen. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ... |
| Date: | 04 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, (white trunks) fighting Amos Johnson in the 178 pound final of the Pan-American Gam... |
| Date: | 02 09 1958 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Erwin G. Tieman baptizes infants as part of a Lutheran crusade for Christ evangelism. |
| Date: | 04 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Male and female teenagers participate together jumping rope. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | "Harvest of Stars" radio and stage personality James "Jimmie" Melton talking with African American workers during a tour of an International Harvester's In... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Wes Covington swinging his bat at the Milwaukee Brave's spring training camp. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker. |
| Date: | 09 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates standing in the doorway of the weekly Arkansas State Press, the newspaper founded by Mrs. Bates and her husband, L.C. Bates. As a result... |
| 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: | 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: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates looks out from her front window as members of the 101st Airborne Division prepare to escort members of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High S... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates shakes hands with President Eisenhower at the Summit Conference. |
| Date: | 05 29 1958 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957, looking throu... |
| Date: | 02 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Woman dressed as Aunt Jemima standing with merchandise display, at the Casey and O'Brien Store, 124 West Mifflin Street, featuring Philco appliances includ... |
| Date: | 02 27 1954 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed as Aunt Jemima is making pancakes on a pull-out griddle at a stove which is part of a merchandise display at Evans Radio and TV Store, 4233... |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its... |
| Date: | 03 30 1953 |
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| Description: | Dottie Hildebrandt, a Wauwautosa senior in Recreation at the University of Wisconsin, trying on spring hat, assisted by Lonnie Graham. The hat, titled "Gra... |
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