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| Date: | 08 07 1964 |
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| Description: | Alabama A and M College professor Dorothea Smith speaking at a press conference. She was one of 51 mathematics teachers from 40 predominantly Negro college... |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "Willie Peacock, Charleston, Mississippi, field secretary for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commission, discussing the Summ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Social action poster advertising Native American Week, January 26-Feburuary 3, 1973. In the center is a photograph of two Native Americans, an adult and a ... |
| Date: | 11 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council rally. She is wearing the organization's sweatshirt. Other unidentified people are marching wi... |
| Date: | 09 25 1966 |
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| Description: | Still from an episode of the WTMJ program "Human Rights," which was titled "Race Relations '66." Four people: Wesley L. Scott, executive director of the Mi... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | A group of white teenage boys pour drinks and condiments on African American students sitting at a Woolworth's lunch counter in a non-violent demonstration... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Three civil rights activists sit at a Woolworth's lunch counter in a non-violent demonstration. From left to right are Professor John Salter, Joan Trumpaue... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Civil rights activist Walter Williams lying face down on the floor near the lunch counter at Woolworths, where he was taking part in a sit-in. He had just ... |
| Date: | 07 04 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of white men are posing along a pile of cinder blocks. In front of the blocks, and partially obscured by shadows, is the body of a black man. Capti... |
| Date: | 07 22 1965 |
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| Description: | Several actors, all of whom are white and are wearing "yellowface" makeup to caricature Asians, are either dancing or looking on. Caption reads: "The Chine... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster with an image of Angela Davis. Her mouth is open as if speaking the words from the text printed on the black area that represents her hair. The text... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster depicts First Nations man holding a dollar bill and two coins in one hand and a letter in the other hand written in his language. A paper with the t... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | African-Americans approach the courthouse in order to vote. The original caption reads: "Negro citizens attempt to cast ballots in Greenwood, August 1963. ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A flyer advertising the Crusade for Citizenship on February 12, 1958. An illustration shows men and women voting. Text reads, in part: "20 cities will hold... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | The front page of the first issue of the Voter Education Project newsletter which includes portraits of Wiley Branton, J. Minnis, and R. Blackwell. |
| Date: | 10 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A long, orderly line of student sorority and fraternity members carrying umbrellas and marching in pairs to protest of the decision to ban the Delta Gamma ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A long, orderly line of student sorority and fraternity members carrying umbrellas and marching in pairs to protest the decision to ban the Delta Gamma sor... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn banner hanging from the bay window of a home. The banner features a cartoon, rear view, of a boy holding an American flag, with his arm around a... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Students from Columbia Point waiting outdoors to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are walking, and a few are clowning for the cam... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ... |
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