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Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
Date: | 04 01 1955 |
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Description: | Henry "Hank" Aaron at bat during a Milwaukee Braves pre-season game. |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Parishioners gather at the entrance outside New Fellowship Church of God In Christ at North Eighth Street. |
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Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
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Description: | Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard. |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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Description: | Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
Date: | 04 06 1969 |
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Description: | Children walking out of church after the Easter Sunday service at St. James United Methodist Church at 1114 West Brown Street. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy, with proprietor, assistant, customer and mailman standing among numerous retail displays and a McCormick-Deering "four in lin... |
Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | African American man sitting inside an agricultural display of corn, potatoes, canned goods and International Harvester agricultural lecture charts. A bann... |
Date: | 02 21 1985 |
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Description: | The Auer Avenue School's safety cadet team standing in front of the school building. |
Date: | 11 14 1966 |
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Description: | African American junior Girl Scouts pouring fruit juice into a punch bowl as they prepare to entertain their parents. |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
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