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Kiddie Camp Children

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room eating at a table to demonstrate that the Kiddie Camp's provision of good n...
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First and Second Grades at Scribner School

Date: 1908
Description: First and second grade students in their classroom at Scribner School.
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Jeff Dansby and Jeff Hilton Canvassing Skit

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: IUMM & SW Institute for Educational Techniques, Political Action! To keynote the intensive efforts this union would be making in the future, Jessie Dansby...
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Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers Session

Date: 1947
Description: Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center.
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Civil Rights Workshop Banquet

Date: 08 1956
Description: Four women and a man eating at a table at a Civil Rights banquet at Highlander Folk School. Septima Clark, second from left.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking at Highlander

Date: 08 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library.
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25th Anniversary of Highlander

Date: 09 02 1957
Description: 25th Anniversary event in the Highlander Folk School Library. Pictured are Rosa Parks, Myles Horton, Aubrey Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. among ot...
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Highlander Student Workshop

Date: 05 1960
Description: Music being played at a Highlander Folk School student workshop. John Lewis in back, extreme left; James Bevel, kneeling, left (in front of John); Candie A...
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Rosa Parks at Segregation Workshop

Date: 07 24 1955
Description: Dr. C.H. Paris, Fred Patterson, and Mrs. Rosa Parks attending a Segregation Workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Freedom School

Date: 1964
Description: Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer.
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Labor Union School

Date: 08 1957
Description: People in line during lunchtime during the District 8 labor institute.
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Twenty-Three Champions Compete in City Spelling Bee

Date: 03 25 1952
Description: Spelling champions from twenty-three Madison public and parochial schools will take part in the city spelling finals of the "Wisconsin State Journal" 1952 ...
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Montgomery State Normal School

Date: 03 03 1915
Description: A large group of African American children stand with a sign reading: "Diversification of Livestock in Alabama" in front of the Montgomery State Normal Sch...
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Cotton Presentation

Date: 1915
Description: View from back of classroom of Dr. W.B. Hinds pointing at a graph as he delivers an agricultural lecture on cotton to students seated at North Alabama Bapt...
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Students at "Muskogee Colored High School"

Date: 1916
Description: African-American students gathered in a room at what the original caption identifies as the "Muskogee Colored High School."
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Boys Building Fly Traps

Date: 1915
Description: Boys use various tools to make fly traps in a classroom. A man, probably their instructor, stands in the background in front of a chalkboard.
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Classroom Presentation on Flies

Date: 1915
Description: A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart...
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Freedom School Convention

Date: 08 08 1964
Description: A group sings freedom songs at the Freedom School Convention during Freedom Summer.
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Martin Luther King Broadside

Date: 1963
Description: "Martin Luther King .... at Communist Training School," a broadside received by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, while civil rights legislation was bei...
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Mary Lee Griggs and Children with Blocks

Date: 1941
Description: Mary Lee Griggs, head of Parent Education and director of the Play School at Neighborhood House, with Catherine Oliva, Delores Caire, and Sam Moskowsky. Th...

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