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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. |
| Date: | 05 29 1958 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957, looking throu... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | The Little Rock home of Daisy and L.C. Bates, showing their front window after a stone had been thrown through the window. Grates have been placed on this ... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a home taken by a civil rights volunteer. "The front porch of our home at Mrs. Willie Thompson's, 808 Augusta, McComb, Mississippi. The hous... |
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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: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A housing development built to serve the African-American community in McComb, canvassed by civil rights volunteers. "Government built development in McC... |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a sidewalk. In the background are several commercial and residential buildings. |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a road. In the background are residential buildings. |
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| Description: | Rear view of the charred remains of a house that has been burned. Undamaged homes are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 23 1980 |
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| Description: | Several women and children are walking, riding bicycles, or on roller skates. Some are carrying signs that read: "Equality of rights under the law shall no... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A school boy is raising a fist for the photographer while sitting with a group of his friends. Handwritten caption on the reverse: "These boys asked us to ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A man, sitting on porch steps, is holding up a sign that reads: "K.K.K. + S.B + H.P." (Ku Klux Klan plus South Boston plus Hyde Park.) Standing on the porc... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A recent graduate of South Boston High School and her friends are standing on the sidewalk in front of a house. One of the woman has a baby in a baby strol... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Racist graffiti spray painted on the wall of a South Boston housing project. It reads: "We HATE Niggers." This image was captured during the unrest followi... |
| 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: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of students in South Boston are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. One boy is grabbing the head of an effigy of an Af... |
| Date: | 09 12 1974 |
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| Description: | View down street towards school buses transporting minority students to South Boston High School. They were escorted by police. Protestors are lined up alo... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "David Duke, Grand Dragon of the Baton Rouge Ku Klux Klan trying to recruit South Boston residents, teenagers idolized him, l... |
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