Date: | 06 27 1954 |
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Description: | Police officer inspecting the damage to the home of Andrew Wade and his family after it was bombed. |
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Description: | Anne Braden (center) at an unidentified meeting of the SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) leadership. |
Date: | 02 02 1980 |
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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... |
Date: | 1982 |
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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... |
Date: | 1983 |
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Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
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Description: | Women of the Haywood Handicrafters, a civil rights project established for black women in Haywood County, Tennessee. Many of these women had been subject ... |
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Description: | Anne Braden and Rev. Ben Chavis at an SOC (Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Human Welfare) event. Braden and Chavis were founding members a... |
Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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Description: | Dr. C.H. Paris, Fred Patterson, and Mrs. Rosa Parks attending a Segregation Workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
Date: | 05 26 1959 |
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Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particul... |
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Description: | Father James Groppi, seen wearing sunglasses in the middle of a crowd, leads a demonstration against discrimination. |
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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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Description: | Robert Zellner with people involved in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. From left to right are Larry Rubin, Matthew Jones, Robert Zellner, M... |
Date: | 04 29 1945 |
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Description: | Prisoners, most wearing striped uniforms, on both sides of a barbed wire fence cheering at their liberation from the concentration camp by the United State... |
Date: | 02 07 1950 |
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Description: | Nine women, all but two in blackface and all dressed in drag for a minstrel show, presented by a St. Bernard's Catholic Church Christian Mothers group. Sea... |
Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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Description: | Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company. |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Senator John F. Kennedy, then campaigning for the presidency, speaks with Frank D. Reeves and Marjorie Lawson during a meeting of the American Council on H... |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
Date: | 09 19 1955 |
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Description: | Roy Bryant, one of the two men charged with the murder of Emmett Till who had allegedly whistled at Bryant's wife, Carolyn. She sits at Bryant's right, and... |
Date: | 09 19 1955 |
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Description: | Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam, (left to right) with their attorney on the opening day of their trial for the murder of Emmett Till. The 14-ye... |
Date: | 09 1955 |
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Description: | Rev. Moses Wright and his son Simon outside the Sumner courthouse where two white men were on trial for the murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till (Wright's nep... |
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