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| Date: | 05 29 1958 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957, looking throu... |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 08 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Thomas of the Little Rock Nine is harassed by Central High School students as he waits for transportation after the first day of school. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | The Little Rock home of Daisy and L.C. Bates, showing their front window after a stone had been thrown through the window. Grates have been placed on this ... |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Violence against African American journalists covering the Little Rock integration story. Here the crowd moves in on Jimmy Hicks (center, wearing a hat), t... |
| Date: | 09 04 1957 |
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| Description: | First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove... |
| 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 ... |
| 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. |
| 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: | 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: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the segregated entrance for African-Americans at Malco Theater. There is a fire escape on the side of the building. Several cars are parke... |
| Date: | 09 11 1956 |
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| Description: | African-American students escorted from Sturgis High School by armed National Guardsmen. |
| 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... |
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