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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Parishioners gather at the entrance outside New Fellowship Church of God In Christ at North Eighth Street. |
| 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: | 09 15 1928 |
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| Description: | Street scene featuring the Old Absinthe House, a famous New Orleans establishment in the city's French Quarter. The building was built in 1806 by Pedro Fro... |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | Wan Wan San Chinese acrobats and Harris and Van, from the Orpheum Theatre, wearing straw hats, in front of Crescent Clothing Store, 27 N. Pinckney Street. ... |
| Date: | 10 27 1930 |
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| Description: | F&W Grand store window, located at 15 W. Main Street, displays 33 rpm records, jewelry, and advertising for Amos n' Andy in the film "Check and Double Chec... |
| Date: | 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Demonstration at the Greyhound Bus station, showing a woman holding a sign that reads: "Sit Down Like Human Beings, Up Front." SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| 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: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View across street towards Harry Rodin's service station at the intersection of North 7th and West Galena. People are standing at the corner near the bus s... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t... |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Violence against African American journalists covering the Little Rock integration story. Here the crowd moves in on Jimmy Hicks (center, wearing a hat), t... |
| Date: | 09 04 1957 |
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| Description: | First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. On the right an African American girl and a Ca... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A man and woman walking arm-in-arm up a steep sidewalk. The man is carrying a grocery bag, and the city street lined with buildings stretches off into the ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of five girls holding school books pose for a portrait in front of a building on Coney Island. |
| Date: | 04 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses with his sister and other children on Easter Day. Front from left to right are Nedra Arms (sister) and John Hall. From left to right behin... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Five people sitting on a sidewalk outside of a building. A woman stands on a stoop in the doorway. |
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