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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 06 1924 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the first annual Spring Festival and Entertainment event held on June 14, 1924 by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). There is an ima... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi meets around a large table with the NAACP Youth Council. Several of the men are wearing shirts with the word "Commando" on the back. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View towards the large, red building with steep roof. First level has awnings above windows. Behind the building is a grassy area. Caption reads: "Masonic ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | 3000 W. Wisconsin Avenue. Completed in 1928, it is a Shriners mosque, and was designed by architects Clas and Shepard in Moorish Revival style. The buildin... |
| Date: | 07 11 1941 |
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| Description: | Float of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in a Milwaukee parade. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi sitting with several of his fellow marchers, some in Milwaukee N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council shirts. Groppi has taken off one of his shoes. |
| Date: | 01 23 1955 |
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| Description: | A man is reading from a piece of paper, while a man and three women are looking on. Caption reads: "The first debutante to arrive at the 21st annual ball o... |
| Date: | 12 16 1956 |
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| Description: | Four children smile at a young man holding out checks. Caption reads: The year's savings of members of the Neighborhood Saving and Recreation organization ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and bow tie is standing at a podium, speaking and gesturing with his hands. A lectern scarf is draped over the podium with the word "P... |
| Date: | 10 13 1959 |
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| Description: | Two men in clerical collars (and one wearing a biretta, cross, cassock, and cincture) examining a monstrance held by a woman. Several clerical vestments ar... |
| Date: | 12 24 1966 |
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| Description: | Followed by father James Groppi, their advisor, four members of the Milwaukee Youth Council of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), are walk... |
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