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| Description: | Cartoon of Jim Crow in the U.S. zone of postwar Germany, with a soldier goose stepping in the foreground, and Hitler and Stalin in the background. |
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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: | 02 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a drawing of Huey Newton to advertise his appearance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. Newton helped found the Black Pan... |
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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... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 09 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Willie Reed, an 18-year-old "surprise" witness who bravely testified during the murder trial of 14-year-old Emmett Till, correctly identifying the white de... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A group of African Americans in the courtroom at the Emmett Till murder trial. The 14-year-old Till, who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago, was murdere... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | An unidentified rally in support of the rights of Willie McGee who was convicted of raping a white woman in 1945. His case attracted the attention of many ... |
| Date: | 12 21 1951 |
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| Description: | The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic. |
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| Description: | The training school for stewards sponsored by Local 56 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. At the blackboard is Otis L. Simmons, the local pres... |
| Date: | 05 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Chicago delegation to the Prayer Pilgrimmage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. |
| Date: | 07 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Meeting of United Packinghouse Workers Local 69 stewards and committeemen employed at the Hygrade Food Products plant. They were meeting to organize a labo... |
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| Description: | Emzie Watkins, a delegate from United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 33 and an employee of the Armour Company in Birmingham, at a union convention. ... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Marjory Collins, a writer and photographer for the "National Guardian," took this picture of the housing of poor blacks. |
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| Description: | The front design of a postcard with the caption "Free Huey Newton!" showing an iconic image of Newton positioned in a drawing that depicts him inside the m... |
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