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Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates

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Description: Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates, apparently wearing press badges, standing outdoors talking with an unidentified man. L.C. Bates, who is wearing a camera, is ap...
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Father Groppi and Vel Phillips on Hood of Bus

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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...
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Violence at Little Rock

Date: 09 28 1957
Description: Violence against African American journalists covering the Little Rock integration story. Here the crowd moves in on Jimmy Hicks (center, wearing a hat), t...
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J. Robert Taylor with Camera

Date: 1936
Description: J. Robert Taylor standing in the middle of a street, holding a large camera. On the left, a car is driving by, and a person is walking on the sidewalk in t...
Poster

Boycott Polaroid

Date: 12 29 1970
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of Polaroid cameras due to the company's supposed involvement in South Africa's apartheid regime. A list of grievances and de...
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International Truck with Filmmakers

Date: 08 15 1937
Description: Two men use a platform on the back of an International truck parked in a cornfield to operate a motion film camera. The original caption reads: "Suggested ...
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Henry Wallace Talking with Two Men

Date: 06 17 1939
Description: Henry Wallace, between two men, talking outdoors near an automobile. Henry Wallace, then the United States Secretary of Agriculture, visited and toured Gre...
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Test Site Arrest

Date: 04 1997
Description: Arrest of Nukewatch demonstrators at a Nevada test site.
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Negotiations at Gresham

Date: 1975
Description: Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb...
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Frame 21: Police Grabbing Girl by Arm - She is Not Intimidated

Date: 07 16 1964
Description: Police drag away 15-year-old Annie Lee Turner. Officers are wearing helmets and holding batons. A couple of men with cameras are walking towards the person...
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Line of People Outdoors

Date: 1966
Description: A group of people wait in line and fill out papers on tables outdoors near a building at a primary election for the LCFO (Lowndes County Freedom Organizati...
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Line of People Outdoors

Date: 1966
Description: A line of predominantly African-American men and women waiting in a line at a primary election for the LCFO (Lowndes County Freedom Organization). In the b...
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Group Being Filmed

Date: 1966
Description: A group of African-American men and women, probably voter registration volunteers, stand in a line outdoors in front of a building at a primary election fo...
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Group with Film Camera

Date: 1966
Description: Several people, probably voter registration volunteers, stand outdoors in front of a building near tables and chairs at a primary election for the LCFO (Lo...
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Woolworth's Protest

Date: 1964
Description: A group of male and female protestors and law enforcement officers stand on the sidewalk outside of a Woolworth's department store during Freedom Summer. O...
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Fight for $15 Protester

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A young African American man is standing in the middle of a crowd speaking through a megaphone. Two camera operators are filming him as he is speaking. He ...
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Joe Davis Speaking to a Crowd of Protesters

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Joe Davis, Milwaukee's 2nd district Alderman, speaking through a megaphone to a crowd of protesters outside the Republican presidential debate. He is stand...
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Vietnam Veteran Holding Sign Opposing Racism

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: Outdoor view of the Janesville Donald Trump rally. A Vietnam veteran is holding up a sign reading: "Racism is Ugly, Racism is Bad." A younger man is standi...
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Young Woman Pepper Sprayed

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A fifteen-year-old girl is being helped through the crowd, escorted by a woman and two Rock County police officers. Her face and part of her clothing is co...
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Demonstrators at a PUSH March

Date: 01 15 1975
Description: Demonstrators at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March walking around the White House to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the birth of Martin L...

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