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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957. |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | L.C. and Daisy Bates watching television with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus on the screen. |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Johnnie Tillmon addressing a Mother's Day March on Washington, ca. 1968 or 1969. George Wiley is sitting directly behind her, on the left. Ethel Kennedy is... |
| Date: | 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Demonstration at the Greyhound Bus station, showing a woman holding a sign that reads: "Sit Down Like Human Beings, Up Front." SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 09 29 1965 |
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| Description: | Group of people at the Forrest City court hearing. Two central people are identified as "Joanna" and "Ben." SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 11 1965 |
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| Description: | Three men and two women, including Margie Holman, at the statewide pre-conference committee meeting. SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Ben G. at the Little Rock staff meeting. SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Barbee posing in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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| Description: | Portrait of James L. Farmer, Jr. sitting at his desk with a "End Segregation - CORE" poster behind him. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights activi... |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates speaking at the podium at a breakfast given in her honor at the Sheraton Plaza. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Daisy Bates wearing a dark dress and beaded earrings and necklace. |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates looks out from her front window as members of the 101st Airborne Division prepare to escort members of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High S... |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates outside her home with four of the Little Rock Nine. The students are Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Melba Pattillo, and Thelma Mothershed. |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates watching Governor Faubus on television. |
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