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| Date: | 09 01 1933 |
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| Description: | Chester Briggs, aka Chester Hawk or John Stanovich, was found by police in a boxcar at the Milwaukee Road switching tracks. He is sitting in a chair at the... |
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| Description: | Drawing showing escaped slave Joshua Glover being seized at Racine. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol... |
| Date: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster created by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), advocating support of prison rebellions, and the abolishment of alleged racist prison terror. Fe... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the liberation of Dana Beal, a marijuana legalization advocate who had been recently apprehended in Madison. Poster features a stylized i... |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the release of Karl Armstrong, who was incarcerated for his involvement in the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-... |
| Date: | 02 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster from 1972, voicing support for Karl Armstrong and his involvement in the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1970... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front member captures an Algerian traitor who helped the French. The FLN member, wearing grass on his hat and shirt as camoufl... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of correctional inmates work in a trench, while a man with a firearm watches from above. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The silent film actors Viola Dana and Bert Lytell, wearing costumes for different productions, knock their coffee cups together in a toast that is apparent... |
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| Description: | Leo Gordon, Neville Brand and Joel Fluellen stand in front of Robert Osterloh, sitting, who is holding a pencil in one hand and a cigarette in the other. A... |
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