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| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Rev. Joseph Lowery, minister, civil rights leader, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), speaking to a conference sponsored... |
| 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: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a speaking event featuring Julian Bond at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House, May 22, 1971. Features a picture of Bond. Eve... |
| Date: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster created by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), advocating support of prison rebellions, and the abolishment of alleged racist prison terror. Fe... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Dr. C.H. Paris, Fred Patterson, and Mrs. Rosa Parks attending a Segregation Workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Recruitment poster for a Soviet Jewry Freedom Bus, advocating the liberation of the Soviet Jewish population. Features large chain links and the phrase "Le... |
| Date: | 03 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a pilgrimage for peace and freedom event, converging in Harrisburg, PA, March 25 through April 2, 1972. Features an image of handcuffed ... |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Sign board used for protest in the wake of the Sterling Hall bombing that reads, "AMRC The Real Murderers,"in watercolor. |
| Date: | 05 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a public speech by Dick Gregory, African American comedian and civil rights activist. Event took place May 19, 1972 at the University of... |
| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated at his desk in the foreground, signs a bill into law ending segregation in the Wisconsin National Guard because of race, c... |
| Date: | 05 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particul... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Flyer that says: "Gotta Get Rid of Sex Laws". The meeting was to be held at Lysistrata, corner of Gorham Street and Broom Streets. Includes the symbols ... |
| Date: | 09 09 1979 |
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| Description: | A large group of people rallying in support of gay rights at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. They are listening to a man playing guitar. Man... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer. |
| 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: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company. |
| Date: | 09 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Roy Bryant, one of the two men charged with the murder of Emmett Till who had allegedly whistled at Bryant's wife, Carolyn. She sits at Bryant's right, and... |
| Date: | 03 1965 |
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| Description: | Ralph Helstein (second from the left), the president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with other union leaders on the first day of the civil ... |
| Date: | 05 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Chicago delegation to the Prayer Pilgrimmage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. |
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