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| Date: | 12 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing iconic masks and white robes parading down King Street to Schroeder Funeral Home for the funeral of Police officer Herbert Drege... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Group of protesters march in front of a Howard Johnson's restaurant holding signs. One says "Segregation OUT!! Integration IN!! CORE - NAACP". |
| 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: | 03 2007 |
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| Description: | A group of people holding a banner while marching down a road as they take part in the Faith and Politics Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Selma. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley. Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company. In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr... |
| Date: | 08 24 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of 150 workers rallying as a part of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) protest against poor working conditions of migrant farm workers in the S... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A series of images from a contact sheet containing scenes of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) leaving Wautoma and marching towards Madison along Highway 21 ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Priest Creek Baptist Church. The church housed the Freedom School during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A group of Freedom School students walk along a road in an image taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Freedom School students on way to see the superinte... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A housing development built to serve the African-American community in McComb, canvassed by civil rights volunteers. "Government built development in McC... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the road outside a home shortly after civil rights volunteers depart from canvassing. "Leaving a house (on the right) after canvassing. B... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A rural road canvassed and photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "'A country mile' - one road to canvass in Summit, Miss. Actually the shaded part of... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of law enforcement officers stand in the street near a vehicle labeled "Police Department" on the side. In the foreground on the left a police offi... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of law enforcement officers wearing helmets hold rolled up paper, probably signs confiscated from demonstrators during a Freedom Summer protest out... |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a road. In the background are residential buildings. |
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