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| 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... |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates speaking at the podium at a breakfast given in her honor at the Sheraton Plaza. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library. |
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| Description: | Civil rights activist Anne Braden speaking to a rally. Behind her is the Rev. Louis Coleman, also a local activist. |
| 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: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony. |
| Date: | 10 01 2008 |
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| Description: | President Barack Obama speaking at rally. |
| Date: | 10 01 2008 |
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| Description: | President Barack Obama speaking at rally. Members of the crowd are raising their signs in support. |
| Date: | 02 18 2008 |
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| Description: | Michelle Obama speaking from a podium at the University of La Crosse. A man is standing in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates accepts a gavel from The Honorable Edward F. McGlaughlin, president of the Boston City Council. She had just spoken before the Council. |
| Date: | 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates speaks at a podium, with several people, including a smiling man, seated to her left. |
| Date: | 10 20 1946 |
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| Description: | Outdoor rally of Allis-Chalmers workers. A man is speaking into a microphone in the front and people stand on the sidewalk and the grassy rise in the backg... |
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| Description: | A man thought to be Booker T. Washington speaks to a crowd of people from the porch of a building. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men and children gather around a man giving a Christmas address. Coweta County Courthouse can be seen beyond the crowd, a Neoclassical Revival building des... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Protest on the Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in support of the grape boycott. A woman stands on the sidewalk speaking at a microphone... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin agricultural labor union Oberos Unidos founder Jesús Salas addressing a rally crowd from a podium after a farm worker demonstration. The crowd is... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman identified as Unita Blackwell speaks before an audience at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) function. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View from behind of Unita Blackwell speaking before an audience at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) function. |
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