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| Date: | 10 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Storefront of the Dixon Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership, with three men standing in the doorway. Two parked trucks frame the store... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers wearing hardhats stand outside a storefront while on a break. |
| 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: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
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| Description: | A group of men and women motorcyclists standing in a semi-circle on the street, with bikes behind them. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Marine Frank Huff, with upraised fist, being arrested by an MP near the Iwakuni Marine Base in Japan. Huff, a member of the GI movement of the early 1970s... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi, seen wearing sunglasses in the middle of a crowd, leads a demonstration against discrimination. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A street gathering of people interested in using war-salvaged explosives for a land clearance program. |
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| Description: | View down wooden sidewalk towards a Ho-Chunk man smoking a cigar and wearing a duck bone breast plate and fur pants on the left, and a European American ma... |
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| Description: | Tom Amlie with supporters and staff taken outside of headquarters. Ed Brown was a "fixer" sent by the party heads in Washington, D.C. Some of the unknown p... |
| Date: | 10 22 1925 |
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| Description: | Six male staff members standing on the sidewalk in front of a Deering dealership in South Africa. The "Deering" brand was sold by International Harvester C... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
| Date: | 05 21 1948 |
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| Description: | National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Union infantry standing in front of a slave dealer's shop. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group of men are snagging sturgeon from a bridge over the Wolf River. A sturgeon is hanging from a line. More men are sitting on a bridge support, ... |
| Date: | 09 1958 |
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| Description: | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) picketers outside the Schroeder Hotel where the Apprenticeship meeting was held. A Blatz... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott.... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a paisley dress is carrying a United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO sign in front of a Kroger store that reads, "Honor Picket Line/ National Cou... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Jon P. Wilcox (far left), cucumber grower and state legislator, crossing the grape boycott picket line at a Kroger store. In 1969, Grape boycotts in Wiscon... |
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