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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
| Date: | 08 12 1924 |
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| Description: | Crew of African American workmen paving a city street behind an International heavy-duty truck. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an African American prisoner hauling goods with a horse-drawn wagon. Original caption reads: "Baled alfalfa, bacon, flour and grain which... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Group of people on steps in front of unknown building in Milwaukee. A car is parked on the street. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man driving a Weber wagon with two mules sitting in front of a building in front of the Komp Machine Works. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Church located at the corner of Broadway and Division Streets. A group of men, women and children stand at the corner near a large lamp post. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Men using an Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader to work on an urban street. The grader was owned by the State Paving and Construction Co. Original caption states: "G... |
| Date: | 05 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men load garbage onto the back of an International DS-35 truck owned by the City of Louisville, while two men sit in the truck's cab. The truck is on... |
| Date: | 09 1960 |
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| Description: | View from behind of Lewis Arms riding his 1946 Harley-Davidson Flathead motorcycle on the sidewalk of the 1800 block of Beld Street. On the back of his ja... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. On the right an African American girl and a Ca... |
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| Description: | Three people pose in and around an ox cart on a country road. Caption reads: "On the River Road." |
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| Description: | View of a man in a hat, sitting on a donkey drawn cart filled with fire wood. The cart sits on a dirt road with woods in the background. Caption reads: "... |
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