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| Date: | 02 21 1985 |
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| Description: | The Auer Avenue School's safety cadet team standing in front of the school building. |
| Date: | 04 24 1989 |
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| Description: | Children meet "Happy Tooth", a robot sponsored by Colgate toothpaste on a 30-state tour to promote dental hygiene to young school children. |
| Date: | 03 19 1989 |
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| Description: | Children celebrating their heritage during Ethnic Pride Day at Our Savior's Lutheran Church Hall, 3022 West Wisconsin Avenue. The celebration, which highl... |
| Date: | 05 16 1989 |
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| Description: | Sixth grade class members show off their trophy for being "no-hitters." The plaque reads, "Hitting always hurts." |
| Date: | 03 09 1989 |
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| Description: | Calvin Johnson, right, Custer High School chess champion, takes on Paul Henk to defend his title. |
| Date: | 06 24 1988 |
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| Description: | A caravan of carts full of recyclables is towed by the man who collected them to earn a little extra cash. |
| Date: | 04 05 1981 |
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| Description: | 400 people march to a rally where they demand that the birthday of Martin Luther King, (January 15) be declared a national holiday. |
| Date: | 12 17 1982 |
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| Description: | Operetta Scene - The Hansberry-Sands Theater Company performed a scene from "Black Nativity" at St. Agnes Church, 4055 N. 25th St. |
| Date: | 02 02 1980 |
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| Description: | Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
| Date: | 1989 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nellie Wilson posing in front of an American flag and a Smith Steel Workers logo. |
| Date: | 12 1984 |
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| Description: | Harry Haywood, seated at the left, one of the leading American communists, at the holiday party of the "Guardian" newspaper, the year before his death. Abe... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Two young girls posing for a portrait by the entrance to a domestic residence. |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1987 |
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| Description: | Green Bay Packer Kenneth Davis lying on the field during a preseason game against the Washington Redskins at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, WI. The Packe... |
| Date: | 08 22 1987 |
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| Description: | Green Bay Packer running back Kelly Cook (#20) sits on a bench getting some assistance on the sideline during a preseason game against the Washington Redsk... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | "The painting shows the Choctaws and a mixed group of Major Daquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color. The latter were mostly attired in civilian clothes bec... |
| Date: | 08 17 1981 |
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| Description: | View from behind of a young woman wearing a t-shirt with the title Dungeon Mistress printed on the back while she plays an adventure game called Telengard ... |
| Date: | 10 07 1980 |
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| Description: | Campaigning for vice president, former Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey visited an after-school tutorial program at the Scudder Homes project. Lucey was... |
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