Date: | 09 1957 |
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Description: | The police used fire hoses to control the angry crowds that gathered near Central High School during the integration crisis. There is a boy on the ground w... |
Date: | 10 15 1956 |
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Description: | Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ... |
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Description: | "Little Rock's 'Lady' of the Year", a flyer distributed by racists in Little Rock, illustrated by her 1946 police mug shot and arrest record. The text char... |
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Description: | Page 2 of a leaflet entitled "The Little Rock Story", apparently intended by its publisher, American Nationalist, to persuade NAACP sympathizers in Little ... |
Date: | 03 1966 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council demonstrating outside the Eagles Club at night beneath a marquee advertising a Duke Ellington performance. |
Date: | 09 1993 |
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Description: | Scott Douglas and Connie Tucker (right), leaders of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC), at an unidentified event. |
Date: | 05 16 1954 |
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Description: | Andrew Wade and his wife and daughter stand in front of their house. Their front windows have been damaged by rocks and rifle shots. |
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: | 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: | 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. |
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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: | Cover design of a pamphlet entitled "America for Americans," featuring a Ku Klux Klansman (KKK) wearing a conic mask and white robes on a rearing horse hol... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Cover design of a pamphlet entitled "The Five Horses of the Apocalypse," a Lecture by J. E. Stout, A Devine Prophecy of the Ku Klux Klan, featuring a line ... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Cover design of a pamphlet of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), "an urgent call to real men from the imperial palace" in Atlanta, Ga., Col. W. J. Simm... |
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