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Chain Gang On a Highway

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Description: View of a chain gang from the front window of a car.
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Dombrowski Leaves Jail

Date: 1948
Description: James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol...
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Convict Camp

Date: 1920
Description: A man standing in the cook house doorway at a convict camp comprised of several tents and a iron cage on wheels.
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Prisoners Working

Date: 1915
Description: View down road of a group of prisoners wearing striped jumpsuits doing road work while supervisors look on. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near a fence, and...
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Convict Laborers

Date: 1915
Description: A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand...
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Viet Cong Prisoner

Date: 11 1965
Description: Viet Cong prisoner seated with his legs bound and his hands on his head. He is encircled by barbed wire. Soldiers are behind him.

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