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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses in front of the Madison airport before flying to Fort Knox, Kentucky. He is wearing his army uniform. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses in front of a military tank wearing army gear. On the tank from left to right are Lew Arms, Jr., Craig Arms, Rita Arms, and Mamie Arms. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms, wearing army gear, eats chow outdoors. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Group of people, probably including NAACP Youth Council members, picketing outside Marc's Big Boy restaurant. Lloyd Barbee is second from the left. |
| Date: | 06 13 1961 |
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| Description: | Large group of protesters in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda with many carrying signs in favor of Civil Rights for African-Americans. One man holds a s... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Three members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council Commandos (Milwaukee) kneel over George Wallace presidential ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | At the center of the photograph is Ricardo Enriquez of Mercedes, Texas. He is at a grape boycott picket with other students. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Protest on the Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in support of the grape boycott. A woman stands on the sidewalk speaking at a microphone... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin agricultural labor union Oberos Unidos founder Jesús Salas addressing a rally crowd from a podium after a farm worker demonstration. The crowd is... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Three men pose together on a picket line at the Case plant. The man in the center holds a sign reading: "Case Local demands justice." The Case eagle on a g... |
| 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: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker... |
| 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: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A nine-year old Jamaican boy wearing a backwards cap, plaid jacket, jeans, and sneakers. He is holding two buckets and is looking at the camera. He is join... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field to strike. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an inde... |
| Date: | 02 1963 |
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| Description: | Diane Nash Bevel stands smiling beneath a small sign that reads: "Jail-Bird for Freedom!". |
| Date: | 02 17 1963 |
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| Description: | Diane Nash Bevel and Rev. James Bevel look at papers together. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Workers gathering at a cucumber receiving station after striking. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos (United Workers),as an indepe... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | On the left, Bill Smith, administrative assistant for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), the Wisconsin migrant farm workers' union. On the right, Mark Erenbe... |
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