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| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Donna Connolly, wearing sunglasses, is standing on the sidewalk in South Boston with some of her children. She was one of the leaders of the school boycott... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Two girls are rolling about in the street on small, foot-powered, six-wheeled ATV toys, and a man is standing on the corner next to a building with a billb... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Students from South Boston are posing and clowning on a curb near a street corner. Older students are standing or sitting on chain-link fence. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of students are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. Two boys are holding an effigy of an African-American man. In the ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of South Boston teenagers posing with an effigy of an African-American man. In the background is a chain-link fence, shrubs and a housing project. ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project preparing to hang an effigy of a black man." Children are lined up along a chain-link fenc... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "S. Boston kids preparing to hang an effigy." One of the boys is standing on the top of the chain-link fence helping the boy ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of children are hanging an effigy of an African-American man in a dead tree, creating a mock lynching. One of the boys is sitting on a limb of the ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project burn the effigy of a black man." The mock-lynching was staged by a group of students in th... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March walking around the White House to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the birth of Martin L... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March walking around the White House to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the birth of Martin L... |
| Date: | 01 14 1974 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson preaching at a pulpit with microphones at Shiloh Baptist Church. Members of the congregation, and singers in robes can be seen b... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson gesturing while sitting at his desk in the PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) headquarters. In the background, on the wall, ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified men, officers of PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity), sitting and talking together at an event. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his lea... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his lea... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his lea... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his le... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his lea... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. On the back wall is a large portrait o... |
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