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| Description: | A group of Civil Rights activists, including Septima Clark (left), posing in front of the Highlander Library. |
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| Description: | A Civil Rights workshop in session at Highlander School showing Myles Horton, Mikii Marlowe, Essau Jenkins, Septima Clark and Rosa Parks in attendance. |
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| Description: | Eleven people, including Thurgood Marshall, Anne Braden, Myles Horton, and Septima Clark, are sitting and standing during a Civil Rights meeting at Highlan... |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks on the front porch of Highlander School. The woman seated behind Ms. Roosevelt is May Justus, who, with her partner Vera McCampbel... |
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| Description: | Various views of people, including Rosa Parks and Myles Horton, at an early integration workshop at Highlander School. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Cover of pamphlet entitled "Louisiana Story 1963," by James Farmer. Produced by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). |
| 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... |
| Date: | 12 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding a bus with white Methodist minister Glenn Smiley during the Montgomery bus integration struggle. The man seated in fro... |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., with two leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Russell Lasley, and President Ralph Helstein. Probably at a UPWA c... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a student protest on the Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) bumper sticker reading, "One man, one vote." |
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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. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
| 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: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wiley Branton (left), the Little Rock NAACP attorney, and Thurgood Marshall, the special counsel of the NAACP, at the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on the ... |
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| Description: | March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Man in a hat and long coat holding a sign opposing desegregation in schools. Possibly in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Marchers carrying signs bearing the names of Milwaukee suburbs during a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) march for fair housing in Milwaukee. They are pa... |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
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