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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View towards sidewalk of a line of demonstrators carrying signs during a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. A man walking along the sidewalk holds ... |
| Date: | 02 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights activities near the Canton, Mississippi courthouse. Two police officers are pictured holding shot guns and carrying bags of tear gas equipment... |
| Date: | 05 06 1972 |
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| Description: | Women hold signs at an abortion demonstration sponsored by the Rhode Island Coalition To Repeal Abortion Laws. |
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| Description: | A crowd of people gather to demonstrate. They hold a banner that reads, "Our GI's Bring Them Home Now!". |
| Date: | 10 1967 |
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| Description: | A small group of women, along with two children, hold signs protesting Dow Chemical. Two women are wearing gas masks. |
| Date: | 05 01 1971 |
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| Description: | Susan Beckman, a student nurse at County General Hospital, carries a sign protesting the portrayal of nurses in a movie "The Student Nurses". |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | A printed appeal "to MARCH on WASHINGTON, Wednesday August 28, 1963." Some of the text reads "American faces a crisis...Millions of Negroes are denied free... |
| Date: | 02 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Picketers walk the sidewalk in front of the F.W. Woolworth store on the Capitol Square. The protest was against the company's segregated lunch counter poli... |
| Date: | 03 03 1960 |
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| Description: | A crowd of five hundred University of Wisconsin students, some carrying protest signs, attend a rally on Library Mall. They are demonstrating peacefully ag... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men in hats are gathered around a nighttime bonfire, which was probably part of an anti-German demonstration. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A crowd has gathered facing a corner of the Sauk County Courthouse square where a man, elevated above the crowd, waves an American flag. A bonfire burns on... |
| Date: | 03 25 1961 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students John Peters and Bram Luckom leave Madison on a peace walk. Peters plans to walk to Rockford, IL and Luckom plans to walk t... |
| Date: | 04 21 1961 |
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| Description: | U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union theater supporting Fidel Castro and protesting the ... |
| Date: | 04 21 1961 |
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| Description: | U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union theater supporting Fidel Castro and protesting the ... |
| Date: | 04 18 1974 |
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| Description: | View towards large group of people marching with signs on the sidewalk at the office of State Superintendent of Education, Barbara Thompson at the Departme... |
| Date: | 09 09 1961 |
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| Description: | A group of students from the University of Wisconsin Student Council on Civil Rights picket a house on 540 West Mifflin Street and help to move out the pos... |
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| Description: | A candid portrait of a Vietnam veteran with a moustache, wearing a headband with a flower tucked in it, and a Vietnam Veterans Against the War button. He i... |
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| Description: | A Vietnam veteran with a moustache wearing a beret and military medals and patches on his shirt. He is at an anti-war demonstration and took part in the Wi... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a Vietnam veteran. He has military bars on his shirt, and a crowd of people is behind him. He is at an anti-war demonstration and took ... |
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| Description: | A Vietnam veteran is kneeling on the ground with his hand shielding his face. There are medals and an Ace of Spades playing card pinned to his shirt. He is... |
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