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| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates and others at Woolworth's boycott. |
| 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: | 1972 |
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| Description: | George Wiley speaking at a rally, wearing a "Welfare Rights Now!" button on his shirt. |
| Date: | 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Founding members of the Southern Students Organizing Committee (SSOC) at a committee meeting, discussing ways to organize white students in the South to pr... |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Four people seated at a desk which has a poster on it advertising Freedom Day School Withdrawal, set for Monday, May 18th, 1964. |
| Date: | 06 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the new Governor's Commission on Human Rights which will promote tolerance on a statewide basis and fight prejudice and hate. Shown left to righ... |
| Date: | 09 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor's Commission on Human Rights in the governor's office at the Wisconsin State Capitol discussing plans for an upcoming meeting. Pictured from the l... |
| Date: | 10 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the twenty three members of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights standing on the steps of the Capitol Building. First row, left to ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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| Description: | A panel of Wisconsin state officials at Waushara County Electric Cooperative building meeting with Oberos Unidos (United Workers) migrant farm workers unio... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A group of National Farm Workers Association members and supporters applauding rally speakers in front of Waushara County Courthouse. A march to the rally ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A poster with the headline, "I Will Never Turn Back," a quote from a young woman in Mississippi for the Freedom Summer Project in a letter to her mother. B... |
| Date: | 03 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Newly elected officers of the State Commission on Human Rights. "They are, left to right, the Rev. Perry Saito, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, Stev... |
| Date: | 04 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Alabama governor George Wallace shaking hands with members of the Madison Exchange club. They invited Wallace to give a speech at the Cuba Club restaurant ... |
| 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: | 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 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 ... |
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