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| Date: | 10 27 1915 |
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| Description: | Four impoverished men hired by "The Medical Review of Reviews" carry signs with the eugenics slogans, "I am a burden to myself and the State. Should I be a... |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Peoples' New Year's Party at the Langston Huges [sic] Center. Includes the motto "Same struggle — same fight." |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates and others at Woolworth's boycott. |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Johnnie Tillmon addressing a Mother's Day March on Washington, ca. 1968 or 1969. George Wiley is sitting directly behind her, on the left. Ethel Kennedy is... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A young Algerian girl has her foot treated by a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker in a tent. The man is wrapping the girl's foot in bandages. She ... |
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| Description: | A man is standing and writing a letter to a senator, with a similar, enlarged letter behind him. The body of this larger letter reads: "I will appreciate i... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | The Gainesville 8, all members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam, photographed on the day of their arraignment on charges of conspiring to... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Masthead of Racine, Wisconsin temperance publication The Old Oaken Bucket and Sons of Temperance Organ. The masthead features a bucolic scene at the... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker preparing a syringe while squatting on the ground near boulders. In front of him is a collection of ... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian National Liberation Front member showing other members a burning stick. He is wearing a cap and a shirt with the FLN insignia on it. He is poin... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A group of Algerian National Liberation Front members sitting watching another member holding a can and what appears to be a fuse. The men are dressed in f... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front members firing off their weapons into the desert. One man is crouching in front of another, while another man is watchin... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front posing for a portrait in the desert. He is holding a rifle and sitting by a tree, and is wearing a unif... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian National Liberation Front member posing for a photograph outdoors. He is wearing a hat, and fatigues with the FLN insignia on the sleeve. He ha... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) examining a young girl's teeth. The girl is wearing a patterned shawl and is reaching for the man's hat. Th... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker inspecting an Algerian woman's eye in a tent. The woman is wearing a shawl and a head scarf. The ten... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker spooning medicine into a young child's mouth. The child's head is half shaven. Behind them are two women, a yo... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front members hold lookout positions with machine guns. They are wearing fatigues and behind them is the rocky Algerian desert... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker pulling a tooth from a National Liberation Front member's mouth. In front of him is a collection of ... |
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