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| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Rev. Joseph Lowery, minister, civil rights leader, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), speaking to a conference sponsored... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Gwen Patton reporting on the Southern Rainbow Education Project to a conference called by the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC). |
| Date: | 09 1993 |
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| Description: | Scott Douglas and Connie Tucker (right), leaders of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC), at an unidentified event. |
| Date: | 10 1991 |
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| Description: | Richard Arrington, Jr. (at the microphone), the first black to be elected mayor of Birmingham, speaks to a re-election rally. Among the supporters applaud... |
| Date: | 1998 |
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| Description: | Former Green Bay Packer Gilbert "Gravedigger" Brown walks with a crowd of fans. |
| Date: | 1998 |
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| Description: | View through chain-link fence of Green Bay Packer Brett Favre, wearing a red scrimmage jersey, and other players at football practice. |
| Date: | 10 1998 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips standing beside Jeannetta Robinson. Jeannetta is holding a plaque that awards the James Howard Baker Award to Career Youth Development, Inc. f... |
| Date: | 05 1998 |
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| Description: | From the left is Reverend John K. Patterson, Mildred Harpole, Vel Phillips, Frank Cumberbatch, and Moderator Russell Stamper. Russell is moderating the Com... |
| Date: | 10 1998 |
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| Description: | Group portrait, from left: Curtis Harris, Jeannetta Robinson, Donald Sykes, Vel Phillips, and Rose Lue-Hing. Vel Phillips is wearing a red suit coat. |
| Date: | 12 1997 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips sitting, on left, and looking on as Mother Naomi Scott speaks into a microphone at a podium at the Community Brainstorming Conference. |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Vel Phillips in a white blouse posing outdoors next to a railing. |
| Date: | 05 09 1992 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips posing with photographer Gerda Ruecktenwald. Vel is wearing a light blue suit, a flower shaped brooch, and a button pin that reads: "Hate" wit... |
| Date: | 05 09 1992 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips speaking at a podium. She is wearing a light blue suit. The sign on the podium reads: "YWCA of Greater Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing a checkered suit and holding a glass award next to a podium. A man wearing a suit stands next to her. The sign on the podium reads: "... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing a checkered suit is displaying a glass award while standing next to a podium. A man wearing a suit stands next to her. The sign on th... |
| Date: | 05 1999 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms at the age of about 81 in Park Street Shoe Repair at 609 South Park Street. Arms is wearing a blue shirt with eyeglasses in the pocket. There is... |
| Date: | 05 1999 |
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| Description: | Adolph "Pappy" Arms attending the funeral of Blanche (Bass) Arms. He is wearing a necklace with a pendant bearing the image of Martin Luther King, Jr. arou... |
| Date: | 1999 |
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| Description: | From left to right are Craig Arms, Lewis Arms, Jr., and with her back to the camera, Jenny (Arms) Blair, daughter of Lewis Arms, Jr.. They are at Forest Hi... |
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