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| Description: | Five African American men wearing suits and singing into a microphone. There is a small farmers union sign on the back wall. |
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| Description: | Jim Patton (center) at Alabama Farmers Union Convention. |
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| Description: | Virginia Farmers Union coop members leaning on a car. Sign above reads, "Farmers Union... Inc. Office-Warehouse & Dairy Division". |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing her accordion at a meeting of the Food and Tobacco Workers Union. On stage behind her is a "Farmers Union" sign with a graphic logo. |
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| Description: | Highlander Chautauqua route traveling group that went to North Carolina and other places during the `40's. Myles and Zilphia Horton, far left. Posters re... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage in bushel baskets on Capitol Square during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike. |
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| Description: | Strike of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 227 against a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Identified among the picketers are Rev. Charles... |
| Date: | 10 1981 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on strike against the Kellwood Company. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Distribution of picket signs to striking members of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8888. The local was on strike against Tenneco. |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | Handmade screen printed poster with a picture of a fist and the text "Boycott Non-UFWOC [United Farm Workers of America Organizing Committee] Lettuce". |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company. |
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| Description: | At an unidentified kosher butcher shop, a butcher holds up a chicken for a customer to examine. A sign in the background indicates that the butchers were m... |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org... |
| Date: | 03 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Mrs. Edna Ann Vistart holding up a button bearing the slogan: "Beer, Let's Make It!" |
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| Description: | Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, with Hilton Hanna, of Madison, Wisconsin, also a leader in that interna... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
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