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| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips sitting at her desk in the Milwaukee Common Council chamber. Other council members are sitting at their desks around her. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | View across table towards Vel Phillips seated with other unidentified men, possibly other common council members. Sheets of paper are scattered on the tabl... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | View across room towards Vel Phillips sitting at a table in the Milwaukee Common Council chambers with a group of unidentified men. There are papers on the... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips sitting at her desk in the Milwaukee Common Council chamber. She is writing on a piece of paper. Seated next to her are two unidentified women... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Rear view of Vel Phillips sitting at her desk in the Milwaukee Common Council chamber. Other unidentified council members are sitting at their desks. The m... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips is sitting in the Milwaukee Common Council chamber. There are two unidentified men sitting next to her. |
| Date: | 11 06 1975 |
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| Description: | Wesley Scott, executive director of the Milwaukee Urban League, holding a microphone up to a man while interviewing him. On the right a cameraman is holdin... |
| Date: | 04 08 1974 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three people seated at a dining table. Wesley Scott, executive director of the Milwaukee Urban League, is facing Geraldine Wilson, who wa... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy, posing wearing a suit. This image accompanied publi... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is seated with his family. His ... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Madison City Council. Names, (l to r), Joseph Thompson, Paul Soglin, Dennis McGilligan, Susan Kay Phillips, and Eugene Parks. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of UW-Madison Professor Richard Davis playing the bass. |
| Date: | 06 30 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing wearing a vest, furry hat and headband, American Flag cape and holding a tin of sardines in front of a crowd sitting at a r... |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Group of people outdoors behind a fence at a rock festival. |
| Date: | 07 1972 |
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| Description: | A group of African American children are playing in the sand on Bradford Beach. Other children and adults are wading into the lake or are sitting on the sa... |
| Date: | 11 17 1977 |
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| Description: | Wesley Scott, executive director of the Milwaukee Urban League, is standing with his right hand on his chest. |
| Date: | 12 26 1972 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Baba Hannibal Tirus Afrik, sent to an unnamed son for Kwanzaa 1972. Afrik was a school teacher and a leader in the creation of African... |
| Date: | 01 11 1972 |
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| Description: | A family with four children sitting in their living room. Caption reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Boyzie Hughley, 8120 W. Beechwood Ave., sat in their living room wit... |
| Date: | 07 26 1977 |
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| Description: | A young man is hammering a nail into a pallet. Caption reads: "Darnell Yarbrough, 18, worked on wooden pallets at the JA [Junior Achievement] workshop." |
| Date: | 10 13 1977 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hardhat and carrying a tool is walking along railroad tracks. Caption reads: "A railroad worker walked along a line in the Menomonee Valley... |
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