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Children and Adults Participating in Milwaukee Labor Day Parade

Date: 09 03 1945
Description: The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa...
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Packinghouse Workers Strike Kitchen

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov...
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The Right To Vote Rally

Date: 10 29 1959
Description: Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro...
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School Desegregation Pickets

Date: 1964
Description: A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation.
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CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
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African American Farmers Touring Tractor Works

Date: 11 29 1948
Description: Twenty-five members of the "Negro Farmers of America" tour a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The fa...
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Pre-conference Committee Meeting

Date: 11 1965
Description: Three men and two women, including Margie Holman, at the statewide pre-conference committee meeting. SNCC Arkansas Project.
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Sea Island Family Portrait

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Description: Family on Sea Island that was part of the Citizenship group that took place on the island.
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Bernice Williams with Sewing Machine

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Description: Bernice Williams working with a younger CIO member on a sewing machine at the South Carolina Citizenship group.
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Johns Island Group by Morning Star Hall

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Description: A group participating in the Citizenship group standing in front of Morning Star Hall, Johns Island. Charleston Evening Post and New Courier image.
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Johns Island Children

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Description: A child holding a baby next to a television on Johns Island. Part of the Citizenship group that convened there.
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Groppi Protesting Eagles Club

Date: 03 1966
Description: Father James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council demonstrating outside the Eagles Club at night beneath a marquee advertising a Duke Ellington performance.
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SCEF Speakers Bureau

Date: 1971
Description: Civil rights and anti-war activists Carl Braden and Virginia Collins being interviewed during a speaking tour sponsored by the Southern Conference Educatio...
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Fred Shuttlesworth

Date: 02 03 1964
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...
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Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1982
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...
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African American Temperance Group

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Description: Group portrait of a Loyal Temperance League organization largely comprised of African American women and children.
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Worse Than Slavery Cartoon

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Description: A cartoon depicting an African American family hovering beneath a Ku Klux Klansman (KKK) and a white supremacist in the Reconstruction South. There is a sk...
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NAACP and UPWA

Date: 1960
Description: Donald Hankins (third from the right), president of United Packinghouse Workers Local 569, hands a $500 check for an NAACP life membership to Arthur Johnso...
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Goodwill Workshop

Date: 09 09 1949
Description: As part of its participation in the local Community Fund, several members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 117 employed by the Kingan Packing Company v...
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ACORN Meeting

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Description: Five women are seated with an ACORN banner over the blackboard behind them. A man is seated behind them on the right.

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