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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: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Freedom House, which was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sponsored Freedom Center. SNCC Arkansas Project. A child s... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Group of protesters march in front of a Howard Johnson's restaurant holding signs. One says "Segregation OUT!! Integration IN!! CORE - NAACP". |
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| Description: | A group of Civil Rights activists, including Septima Clark (left), posing in front of the Highlander Library. |
| 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... |
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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. |
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| Description: | March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right. |
| Date: | 11 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protest in Detroit, November 3, 1970. Text at the top reads: "Nov. 3 — Elections Are A Hoax!" Handwritten on the le... |
| Date: | 10 1964 |
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| Description: | Tom Hayden standing in front of building with a small African-American child. Poster on window for "The Trenton Project" and two posters advocating that p... |
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| Description: | A small African American child walking towards a door where a woman is holding her hand out. There is a SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) po... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
| Date: | 06 13 1961 |
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| Description: | Large group of protesters in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda with many carrying signs in favor of Civil Rights for African-Americans. One man holds a s... |
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| Description: | Statue of Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves. A young boy stands near Lincoln while a woman kneels at his feet. |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) poster featuring an African man and child on red background. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A child worker wearing a short sleeve plaid shirt, dark pants and no shoes is carrying grapefruit from a Texas grove on his shoulder. He is looking into th... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A nine-year old Jamaican boy wearing a backwards cap, plaid jacket, jeans, and sneakers. He is holding two buckets and is looking at the camera. He is join... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a white short-sleeved t-shirt and dark pants is barefoot and standing to the left of a communal shower hut for migrant farm workers in a Waut... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Two boys standing on the sidewalk are distributing "La Voz Mexicana" ("The Mexican Voice"), the official newspaper of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a un... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Students sitting at tables in a Freedom Summer school in Palmer's Crossing at Priest Creek Baptist Church. Classes were usually held out-of-doors because o... |
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