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Daisy Bates

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Description: Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957.
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Daisy Bates at a Book Promotion

Date: 1962
Description: Daisy Bates speaking with unidentified man wearing eyeglasses. Copies of her memoir "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", and plaques from the NAACP for the ni...
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Daisy Bates, Little Rock Nine and Dr. James Levy

Date: 1958
Description: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine with officers of the NAACP at their 49th annual convention. Mrs. Bates and the nine students received an award for the...
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Daisy Bates

Date: 04 1963
Description: Daisy Bates seated at a desk in the NAACP office.
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Vel Phillips and Milwaukee NAACP

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Description: Vel Phillips being carried on the shoulders of Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council members. On the right is Father James Groppi speaking into a microphone on a p...
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Vel Phillips Marching at Lincoln Memorial

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Description: Vel Phillips (left) is marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council. In the background is the Lincoln Memorial. Other unidentified youth council members...
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Freedom Fund Dinner Committee

Date: 1962
Description: The NAACP Milwaukee Branch's Freedom Fund Dinner Committee. The Freedom Fund Dinner is an annual NAACP fundraising event and awards ceremony for the organi...
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NAACP Milwaukee Branch Annual Dinner

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Elevated view over people sitting at tables in front of the head table, at the NAACP Milwaukee Branch's 1958 Annual Dinner. Roy Wilkins, seated in the midd...
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NAACP Milwaukee Branch Annual Dinner

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of diners at the NAACP Milwaukee Branch's 1958 Annual Dinner.
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Phillips Law Office

Date: 1951
Description: Vel Phillips standing in front of the door to her and her husband's law office. The sign on the glass door reads: "W. Dale Phillips, Vel Phillips Lawyers."...

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