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| 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: | 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Founding members of the Southern Students Organizing Committee (SSOC) at a committee meeting, discussing ways to organize white students in the South to pr... |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Four people seated at a desk which has a poster on it advertising Freedom Day School Withdrawal, set for Monday, May 18th, 1964. |
| Date: | 12 16 1962 |
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| Description: | A village near Cuautla, Mexico, where the Highlander-sponsored, Inter-American Educational Adults seminar was held, invited participants to a committee mee... |
| Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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| Description: | A panel of Wisconsin state officials at Waushara County Electric Cooperative building meeting with Oberos Unidos (United Workers) migrant farm workers unio... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A group of National Farm Workers Association members and supporters applauding rally speakers in front of Waushara County Courthouse. A march to the rally ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A poster with the headline, "I Will Never Turn Back," a quote from a young woman in Mississippi for the Freedom Summer Project in a letter to her mother. B... |
| Date: | 04 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Foster parents are honored at an institute sponsored jointly by the Community Welfare Council foster Parents committee and the University of Wisconsin Exte... |
| Date: | 04 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Two foster mothers, Mrs. Fred Rhyner, Oregon, left, and Mrs. Henry Hamer, Ft. Atkinson, discuss care of their children with Jerold Majerus, 434 Holly Avenu... |
| Date: | 04 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Edwin Robinson, 508 N. Frances Street, a staff member of the Dane County Department of Public Assistance, talks with two foster mothers, Mrs. Edwin Boley, ... |
| Date: | 04 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Many foster fathers also attended the Foster Parents Institute. One of the couples, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford (Margaret) Loiselle, 2605 Spencer Lane, converse... |
| Date: | 04 13 1960 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Veterans of Foreign Wars community service records for 1959 were judged by this committee. Left to right are: Bjarne Romnes, 4215 Waneta Trai... |
| Date: | 05 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Pictured from left are Merrill Shepard, Chicago, guest speaker and at right, Rev. A.C. Schumacher, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church and master of cerem... |
| Date: | 04 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Alabama governor George Wallace shaking hands with members of the Madison Exchange club. They invited Wallace to give a speech at the Cuba Club restaurant ... |
| Date: | 12 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Four U.W. Greeks unloading a bed frame from a truck. The Department of Public Welfare Group Home (for women) moved from 404 W. Washington Avenue to 305 N. ... |
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