Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Johnnie Tillmon addressing a Mother's Day March on Washington, ca. 1968 or 1969. George Wiley is sitting directly behind her, on the left. Ethel Kennedy is... |
Date: | 11 24 1931 |
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Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette delivers a special message on welfare relief to a special session of the legislature in the assembly chamber of the Wisconsi... |
Date: | 08 11 1941 |
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Description: | John Ciezczak (b.1885?), a Polish watchmaker, who sang songs in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Kasshubian for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is... |
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Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks on the front porch of Highlander School. The woman seated behind Ms. Roosevelt is May Justus, who, with her partner Vera McCampbel... |
Date: | 01 20 1944 |
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Description: | An unidentified man, with a cigarette in his mouth, is holding a Collie puppy up for auction at Governor Walter Goodland's dog sale. |
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Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., with two leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Russell Lasley, and President Ralph Helstein. Probably at a UPWA c... |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
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Description: | Farmers Union workshop at Southern Alabama. Tom Ludwig is third from the right. They are possibly recording a conversation. |
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Description: | Civil rights activist Anne Braden speaking to a rally that was called by the National Anti-Klan Network, an organization of which she was a founder. |
Date: | 02 03 1964 |
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Description: | The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth speaks to the 1964 annual meeting of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) after being elected president of the organ... |
Date: | 1991 |
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Description: | Rev. Joseph Lowery, minister, civil rights leader, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), speaking to a conference sponsored... |
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Description: | Rev. C.T. Vivian, a nationally prominent civil rights leader. Although unidentified, it is thought that he is speaking at an event sponsored by the Nation... |
Date: | 1982 |
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Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
Date: | 1983 |
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Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
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Description: | Anne Braden and Rev. Ben Chavis at an SOC (Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Human Welfare) event. Braden and Chavis were founding members a... |
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Description: | Lawyer John J. Walsh, 1930 Regent Street, representing the Log Cabin Inn and the Varsity Club at the City Council's public hearings on the proposed legisla... |
Date: | 05 26 1959 |
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Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particul... |
Date: | 09 09 1979 |
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Description: | A large group of people rallying in support of gay rights at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. They are listening to a man playing guitar. Man... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | Two men are speaking into a microphone labeled "WGL", while a man in the foreground on the left is wearing headphones and operating radio equipment. Men ar... |
Date: | 05 1965 |
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Description: | Matthew A Pinter, business agent of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 of Milwaukee, speaks from the floor during a district union convention... |
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