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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A sign on the roof of a car that says, "Grapes = Poverty" supporting the United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO grape boycott. The car is parked on a street in f... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Roberto Hernandez (left) and Esequiel Guzman (center) work on the layout of "La Guardia" newspaper. The underground bilingual newspaper was published in Sp... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Cesar Chavez, the leader of United Farm Workers, is standing at the center of the photograph surrounded by members of the press. Behind him is a photograph... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, left, is leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm workers' union. In the center, legal counsel David Loeffler and o... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Obreros Unidos (United Workers) demonstrators painting signs at a Milwaukee rally. In the background, a man is painting the National Farmworker's (NFW) Azt... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi sitting with several of his fellow marchers, some in Milwaukee N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council shirts. Groppi has taken off one of his shoes. |
| Date: | 09 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Protesters at a rally for fair housing. One man is holding a sign that reads: "We Demand Fair Housing Now," while others behind him are using a bullhorn. |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi marches with African American teenage girls who are carrying signs that read, "Stop Bussing For Segregation" and "Stop School Segregati... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of protesters march down a street, led by a car. They are protesting school segregation. |
| Date: | 09 30 1966 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee's NAACP Youth Council Commandoes sit in a car outside the home of Police Chief Harold Brier at 3139 S. 50th Street. |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | View towards a man walking alone down the middle of the closed street outside of the Republican presidential debate at the Milwaukee Theater. The man is ho... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | View of the front of a line of protesters marching down the street near to the Republican presidential debate at the Milwaukee Theater. The group is clappi... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Young women and men holding up a banner reading: "Student Union Movement," a social justice group based out of Milwaukee Area Technical College. Other peop... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A large group of protesters walking down the street holding signs reading: "Chase the Money," "Black Lives Matter," "Immigrant Justice," and "Fight for $15... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A group of people are taking photographs of the protesters outside the Republican presidential debate. In the center are two giant effigy puppets of Donald... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A large crowd of men and women standing outside the Republican presidential debate holding signs, banners, and flags. Most of the signs read: "Black lives ... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A young woman on the right is walking in front of a large crowd of protesters. She is wearing a reflective vest and is speaking through a megaphone. The cr... |
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