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Manuscript

Attorney General Letter to Les Fishel

Date: 05 13 1966
Description: Letter from Wisconsin Attorney General Bronson La Follette to State Historical Society of Wisconsin Director Les Fishel, regarding the state's liability in...
Photograph

Soldier Smoking

Date: 1958
Description: View at night in Lebanon of a man sitting behind a table and smoking. He is illuminated by a lamp on the right. Other men stand behind him. In the foregrou...
Photograph

Sid Sitting in Chair

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Sid sitting in a chair holding work papers with his legs up on a large desk in front of him, probably at Gisholt. The desktop has maps and note...
Photograph

Sid Sitting in Chair

Date: 
Description: Waist-up portrait of Sid sitting in an office at a desk or table. He has a cigar in his mouth. Behind him are standing file cabinet and boxes of supplies.
Document

Written Statement by George Raymond

Date: 02 28 1964
Description: A written statement by George Raymond regarding Freedom Day on February 28, 1964 and African Americans' constitutional right to vote.
Photograph

Reedsburg Mill Independence

Date: 04 1954
Description: Several men are standing and sitting around a desk, where one man is signing a document. A calendar for the Norris Wholesale Corporation is on the wall beh...
Historical Object

Threatening Note signed "KKK"

Date: 1957
Description: Threatening note written on a matchbook, signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957 with a rock and rag. The...
Photograph

Electric Company Strike Negotiations

Date: 12 30 1966
Description: Three men are sitting together at a table. The man in the middle appears to be writing on a document, while the man on his right is talking to him. Caption...
Document

Freedom Summer Memo

Date: 1964
Description: A memo to the accepted Mississippi Summer Project workers from the Mississippi Summer Project Committee.
Book or Pamphlet

Security Handbook, Page 1

Date: 1964
Description: A page of a security handbook which served as orientation for Freedom Summer workers.
Photograph

United Nations Workshop

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Description: Five women are sitting and one man is standing in the Highlander Library. The UN Charter is displayed behind them.

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