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Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Two construction workers wearing hardhats stand outside a storefront while on a break. |
Date: | 06 18 1934 |
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Description: | Three men stand around a Farmall F-12 tractor outside of a storage building, possibly at the Gonigam-Bass Company. The men may be International Harvester d... |
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Description: | Civil Rights workshop of Highlander participants partaking in an oyster feast on Johns Island. |
Date: | 11 01 1879 |
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Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler of South Carolina in fine clothing standing next to an African American who is on his knees, surrounded by small bu... |
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Description: | Several families peer into an animal environment at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). Three small children stand on top of the stone wall and look over... |
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Description: | Two members, one male and one female, of a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School, participating in a game. The man is wearing a homemade hat. |
Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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Description: | Retiring mail carrier, Mike Cawley, accepting an envelope containing a token of appreciation from Myrtle L. Hansen, clerk of circuit court at the Dane Coun... |
Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | August Krueger with group of sailors(?). |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Tom Hayden, in the center wearing the dark shirt, looking at a police officer talking to four African-American men. Newark ERAP project. From the SDS colle... |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
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Description: | Two men smoking cigars, one in the process of lighting his while reading a newspaper, possibly the "Union Farmer". |
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Description: | Members of the South Alabama Fertilizer Coop loading bags of fertilizer into a train car. |
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Description: | Myles Horton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jim Stokely, a writer from Newport, Tennessee. Highlander integration workshop. |
Date: | 09 1957 |
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Description: | Mob violence during the integration crisis in Little Rock. Probably taken between September 20th, when Governor Faubus withdrew the National Guard and Sept... |
Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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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... |
Date: | 09 04 1957 |
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Description: | First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove... |
Date: | 10 15 1956 |
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Description: | Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ... |
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Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster of an African American man in a straw hat and overalls seated in front of a weathered building. Text in th... |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Four men guzzle beverages in a cornfield. The caption on the stereograph reads, "Well, here goes looking at you." |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon is underneath the heading: "Hitching the Tractor to the Implement". The cartoon depi... |
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