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| Description: | Bernice Robinson with students at first citizenship school at Johns Island. |
| Date: | 09 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| Description: | African-American man and woman on the front porch of a rural home. The unidentified woman is retrieving water from a well, and the man, J.R. Dean, is sitti... |
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| Description: | Men and women wait in an International Harvester company office among desks, typewriters, and other office equipment. |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, fr... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family posed at board fence of brick house. Two woman, one holding a parasol, are standing in front of the fence on the left near the gate. Two men are sta... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Barber shop with customers and shaving mug rack. African American man is probably Frank Lyons. |
| Date: | 08 08 1945 |
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| Description: | Students attending a lecture. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science, Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Madison for several summers... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Greene, seated outdoors in a chair, holding a cane. There is a fence and trees in the background. |
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| Description: | Five African American men with instruments inside a shed or barn: an upside down gutbucket with USA painted on the side, 2 violins, a guitar, and a stand-u... |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster of an African American man in a straw hat and overalls seated in front of a weathered building. Text in th... |
| Date: | 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Music being played at a Highlander Folk School student workshop. John Lewis in back, extreme left; James Bevel, kneeling, left (in front of John); Candie A... |
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| Description: | Civil Rights activist, Septima Clark, at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women who have applied for employment at the new St. Paul Works sit around a table. They are being interviewed by representatives of Int... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 09 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Willie Reed, an 18-year-old "surprise" witness who bravely testified during the murder trial of 14-year-old Emmett Till, correctly identifying the white de... |
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| Description: | A portrait of an old African American couple sitting on a porch. The woman on the left is smoking a pipe and is holding a small dog in her lap, and the man... |
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