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| Date: | 09 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
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| Description: | A carte-de-visite of a slave sitting with three children. The text at the bottom read: "Learning is Wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, & Rosa. Slaves from N... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Ki... |
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| Description: | Koinonia Youth Camp in the Highlander Library at the Highlander Folk School. The woman in the background is identified as Septima Clark. Koinonia is a far... |
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| Description: | Myles Horton (right), standing in front of the library building with unidentified individual, at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates speaking with unidentified man wearing eyeglasses. Copies of her memoir "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", and plaques from the NAACP for the ni... |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, doing homework. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine, reading a book. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rosa Parks at Mrs. Anne Braden's home. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home. |
| Date: | 04 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Willie Lou Harris of 405 Bram Street sits at left with part of her family. Standing left to right are Mrs. James (Georgia Harris) Elvord, Mr. and Mrs.... |
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| Description: | Group of children at the Cherry Street branch of the Evansville Public Library using steropticons to view stereograph images. Bookshelves line the back wal... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of five girls holding school books pose for a portrait in front of a building on Coney Island. |
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| Description: | Ted Pierce dressed in formal attire, including bow tie and sitting in front of a bookcase with a book on his lap. |
| Date: | 2010 |
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| Description: | Interior view of La Crosse library. Two men are talking near a display of books. A balcony in the background has a display of quilts. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Woman in a long dress wearing a glove and holding a book [?] in her hand posing before a painted backdrop. There is a small white dog seated on a fur rug a... |
| Date: | 02 1963 |
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| Description: | Diane Nash Bevel stands smiling beneath a small sign that reads: "Jail-Bird for Freedom!". |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of an African American man, wearing a formal suit, standing next to a young girl mounted side saddle on a pony. She is reading a book and has ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman standing over a table, pinning a sewing pattern piece to cloth. An ironing board and bookca... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images from the Play School for 3 and 4 year olds: a boy is opening his mouth for a woman who is... |
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