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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
| Date: | 06 1946 |
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| Description: | In the Money: The Bronzeville All-Star Bowling Team which finished in the money in the recent Wisconsin state CIO-sponsored bowling tournament. |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
| 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: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare gather outside the convention hall. |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Mary McLeod Bethune, noted civil rights leader and educator, is introduced to the audience at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Ri... |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Mary McLeod Bethune (left), noted educator and civil rights leader, at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Rights. The woman to her... |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) vote on a resolution. |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Aubrey Williams (seated at right), who would become president of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) at the annual convention of the Southern Con... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | The black American soldier Joe (played by Dots Johnson) and the Italian street urchin Pasquale (Alfonsino Bovino) in a publicity still from Roberto Rossell... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Lewis Arms in uniform after he was discharged from the Navy. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Lewis Arms at the age of 17 wearing his Navy uniform. There is an inscription that reads, "To Mom & Pop Berry with Love," referring to his ne... |
| Date: | 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms stands next to a damaged 1946 Chevrolet which had been rented from Friede Rent-A-Car. Arms and Bert Rogers had been traveling to Milwaukee in th... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of local 18 United Gas, Coke and Chemical of the C.I.O. picketing in a small circle on a wide downtown sidewalk. Two men hold signs and one reads, ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Gene Turman, Local 1533, Beloit (younger) and M.W. Henderson, Local 2763, Galesburg, Illinois, sit on a couch at the United Steelworkers of American Distri... |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Posed group shot of the United Steelworkers of America District 32 Convention Resolutions Committee. The men wear suits and are all sitting or standing aro... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union hand out leaflets at the International Harvester Co. plant during the Union's convention. A small crowd of peop... |
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