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| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of students in South Boston are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. One boy is grabbing the head of an effigy of an Af... |
| Date: | 09 12 1974 |
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| Description: | View down street towards school buses transporting minority students to South Boston High School. They were escorted by police. Protestors are lined up alo... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "David Duke, Grand Dragon of the Baton Rouge Ku Klux Klan trying to recruit South Boston residents, teenagers idolized him, l... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "David Duke, Grand Dragon of the Baton Rouge Ku Klux Klan, trying to recruit South Boston residents. Teenagers idolized him, ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Donna Connolly, wearing sunglasses, is standing on the sidewalk in South Boston with some of her children. She was one of the leaders of the school boycott... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Two girls are rolling about in the street on small, foot-powered, six-wheeled ATV toys, and a man is standing on the corner next to a building with a billb... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Students from South Boston are posing and clowning on a curb near a street corner. Older students are standing or sitting on chain-link fence. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of students are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. Two boys are holding an effigy of an African-American man. In the ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of South Boston teenagers posing with an effigy of an African-American man. In the background is a chain-link fence, shrubs and a housing project. ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project preparing to hang an effigy of a black man." Children are lined up along a chain-link fenc... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "S. Boston kids preparing to hang an effigy." One of the boys is standing on the top of the chain-link fence helping the boy ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of children are hanging an effigy of an African-American man in a dead tree, creating a mock lynching. One of the boys is sitting on a limb of the ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project burn the effigy of a black man." The mock-lynching was staged by a group of students in th... |
| Date: | 10 01 1977 |
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| Description: | Several African-American teenagers are standing outside a building, some wearing coats and some under umbrellas. A sign reads: "Fight for the Right." Capti... |
| Date: | 12 10 1977 |
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| Description: | Several people wearing coats, hats, and gloves are walking in a circle outside a building. One person is holding a sign that reads: "Drop the Holdings, Est... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Nine men are posing in front of a storefront for S.W. Robinson Real Estate. They are holding suitcases and coats and are all wearing suits. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 01 1950 |
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| Description: | 22 people posing together in front of the White House. Caption reads: "CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS CALL ON PRESIDENT: Pictured on White House grounds is the deleg... |
| Date: | 07 24 1983 |
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| Description: | Close-up of two people holding hands, one white and one black. Caption reads: "Black-white couples say that racial difference is no big deal for them, but ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Front page of Connections. Features a photograph of a group of people and two dogs walking down State Street, with the Wisconsin State Capitol in th... |
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