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| Date: | 04 14 1975 |
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| Description: | Eugene (Gene) Parks with his wife and children relaxing outdoors. From left to right are Kendra Parks, Marilyn Park, Wendy Parks, Stacey Parks, Reggie Park... |
| Date: | 12 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding a bus with white Methodist minister Glenn Smiley during the Montgomery bus integration struggle. The man seated in fro... |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., with two leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Russell Lasley, and President Ralph Helstein. Probably at a UPWA c... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a student protest on the Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi and students from Boniface School join the public school boycott. They're clapping their hands and appear to be chanting. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
| Date: | 06 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the new Governor's Commission on Human Rights which will promote tolerance on a statewide basis and fight prejudice and hate. Shown left to righ... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wiley Branton (left), the Little Rock NAACP attorney, and Thurgood Marshall, the special counsel of the NAACP, at the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on the ... |
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| Description: | March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Man in a hat and long coat holding a sign opposing desegregation in schools. Possibly in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Marchers carrying signs bearing the names of Milwaukee suburbs during a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) march for fair housing in Milwaukee. They are pa... |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Barbee and others gathered in front of the Milwaukee County Courthouse for a rally addressing Civil Rights, education, housing, and police brutality.... |
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| Description: | Vera McCampbell, former teacher in Grundy County, who came to the mountains with May Justus before Highlander Folk School was started in 1932, testifying d... |
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| Description: | Myles Horton testifying during a hearing for the Highlander Folk School investigation in Grundy County. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Henry Lee Senter (right) and State Representative Chester McCord (left) at the State investigation of the Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 - 1977), an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader, visiting the Highlander Folk School. Two men are standing in th... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Myra Page, an author and Antioch coop student, who was both a student and later a teacher at Highlander Folk School. |
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