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Dow Chemical Demonstration

Date: 1967
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He...
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Berkshire Strike--Pickets with Tear Gas

Date: 1936
Description: Street intersection with a crowd and police. Tear gas is spreading across the road.
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Berkshire Strike — Pickets and Police on Horses

Date: 1936
Description: Four police officers on horses watch picketers cross a street.
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Bomb Explodes at Haymarket Square Rally

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: A photograph of a painting depicting the bomb exploding at police as they approach the wagon to tell the crowd to disperse from Haymarket Square. Shrapnel ...
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Nazis Demonstrate for HUAC

Date: 1960
Description: Members of the American Nazi Party demonstrating in behalf of the House Un-American Activities Committee against liberal attempts to abolish the committee....
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Anti-Rosenberg Demonstrators

Date: 1951
Description: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union on March 29, 1951, and sentenced to death. The climate surrounding their trial wa...
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Rosenberg Funeral

Date: 06 21 1953
Description: Tensions ran high among the crowd that gathered outside the Brooklyn building where the funeral service for executed Russian spies Julius and Ethel Rosenbe...
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Tom Hayden

Date: 1964
Description: Tom Hayden, in the center wearing the dark shirt, looking at a police officer talking to four African-American men. Newark ERAP project. From the SDS colle...
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Mothers Against the War

Date: 1966
Description: Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam.
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Stop the War

Date: 10 15 1965
Description: Opponents of the War in Vietnam protesting at Truax Air Force Base. This event, which was probably sponsored by local members of the National Coordinating...
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Anti-War Protest

Date: 08 1966
Description: Anti-Vietnam War protestors being dragged onto federal property by police at the Naval Weapons Station.
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Greensboro Massacre Response

Date: 02 02 1980
Description: Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o...
Poster

Dow Riot Protest Poster

Date: 10 1967
Description: Poster with a large image of the Dow Riot (Oct. 18, 1967) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, showing riot police beating protesters. Includes t...
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Face-off between Police and NAACP Members

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Description: The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration.
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Nukewatch at the Gate

Date: 01 1999
Description: Bonnie Urfer, one of the leaders of Nukewatch, speaking with local police officer Ken Johnson outside the Project ELF facility. Nukewatch was present for o...
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ELF Peace Demonstration

Date: 08 09 2002
Description: Members of Nukewatch protesting at the Project Elf facility near Clam Lake. This protest was part of the organization's annual Hiroshima event, and the pro...
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Korean Student Uprising

Date: 04 1960
Description: The student uprising, in which 112 students were killed by the South Korean police in one day, led to the downfall of President Syngman Rhee. This event wa...
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Pro-Life Demonstrators

Date: 1979
Description: A group of pro-life demonstrators holding protest signs assembled to greet President Jimmy Carter during a visit to Wausau. The group is confined behind ba...
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Protest at Lake and State Streets

Date: 1968
Description: Composite photograph of an elevated view of an anti-Vietnam War protest at the intersection of Lake and State Streets looking east up State Street. A large...
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NAACP March with Police Escort

Date: 1967
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 ...

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