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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 06 1969 |
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| Description: | Children walking out of church after the Easter Sunday service at St. James United Methodist Church at 1114 West Brown Street. |
| Date: | 11 14 1966 |
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| Description: | African American junior Girl Scouts pouring fruit juice into a punch bowl as they prepare to entertain their parents. |
| Date: | 09 22 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy is twirling a "hula-hoop" around his neck while another child is watching from the left foreground. |
| 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 25 1967 |
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| Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
| Date: | 09 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
| Date: | 12 11 1965 |
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| Description: | Boy inserting coin into a gumball vending machine in anticipation of a sweet treat. |
| Date: | 11 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army. |
| Date: | 11 27 1967 |
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| Description: | A machinist running a punch press at Res Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 01 13 1965 |
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| Description: | Toddlers looking into the camera with tears in their eyes. They were found abandoned at the Central YWCA. |
| Date: | 09 30 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman sits with her ten children surrounding her and watches TV. |
| Date: | 05 07 1964 |
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| Description: | Americus Kates, 10, surveys the candy case before making his selections. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Curtis (Hayes) Muhammad, Willie Peacock, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe on Steptoe's farm. |
| Date: | 04 11 1969 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lloyd Knox demonstrating the technique of making spoon bread. |
| Date: | 05 13 1968 |
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| Description: | Thurman Butler, 16, with the sculpture he made while practicing cutting and welding techniques in a foundry course at Milwaukee Technical college. He calle... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Allied Artists film "Shock Corridor," featuring James Best (playing Stuart), Peter Breck (playing Johnny Barrett), and Hari Rhodes (pl... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A line of predominantly African-American people likely outside of the Leflore County Courthouse, probably at a voter registration drive. Caucasian law enfo... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A page from the pressbook for the movie "Black Like Me" depicting a one-sheet poster that could be ordered to publicize the film. The poster reads: "I chan... |
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