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| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ... |
| Date: | 04 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Five people admire a book entitled "Go South To Sorrow" which will be given as a prize for the NAACP's Madison branch membership drive at the annual freedo... |
| Date: | 09 30 1966 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee's NAACP Youth Council Commandoes sit in a car outside the home of Police Chief Harold Brier at 3139 S. 50th Street. |
| Date: | 05 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) plans annual Freedom Fund benefit at Central High School. Shown (... |
| Date: | 11 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council rally. She is wearing the organization's sweatshirt. Other unidentified people are marching wi... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips at a Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council meeting. Vel is standing with a group of people on a table or stage. Below her is Father James Groppi. Vel ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of people marching in the street with Father James Groppi. There is a man driving a Milwaukee police vehicle in front, and one man... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 11 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated group portrait of diners at the NAACP Milwaukee Branch's 1958 Annual Dinner. |
| Date: | 06 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of attendees at the 51st annual national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in the St. Paul Audit... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| 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."... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Group of people around a woman wearing sunglasses and a straw hat. A few of the people behind her are wearing NAACP shirts. |
| Date: | 01 11 1982 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of E. Gordon Young, an attorney and civil rights activist who became the state's first black assistant attorney general in 1965. At... |
| Date: | 11 15 1967 |
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| Description: | A young man in a Milwaukee N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council t-shirt is standing and talking to a group of children. Caption reads: "Richard E. Green, 22, of 3233 N... |
| Date: | 10 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Six people stand near a table with a punch bowl, some posing for the camera and others seeming unaware of it. Caption reads: "Reception for Canada Lee, sta... |
| Date: | 10 23 1958 |
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| Description: | The planning committee for the 6th annual state conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) meets to discuss the c... |
| Date: | 02 15 1961 |
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| Description: | The Dane County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Brotherhood Week display, including books, recordings and other material... |
| Date: | 12 24 1966 |
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| Description: | Followed by father James Groppi, their advisor, four members of the Milwaukee Youth Council of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), are walk... |
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