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| Description: | Six fighters in pugilistic poses, in the boxing ring with their coach. The Milwaukee Urban League provided community activities, like boxing, for children ... |
| Date: | 02 21 1985 |
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| Description: | The Auer Avenue School's safety cadet team standing in front of the school building. |
| Date: | 11 14 1966 |
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| Description: | African American junior Girl Scouts pouring fruit juice into a punch bowl as they prepare to entertain their parents. |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration. |
| Date: | 06 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Jackie Robinson crouching on the ground and pointing to a diagram of a baseball diamond sketched on the pavement as a large group of primarily African-Amer... |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Memorial Day, "Poppy Day," Committee. Three men in uniform stand for a group portrait in front of a stucco wall. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Three members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council Commandos (Milwaukee) kneel over George Wallace presidential ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Henry 'Hank' Aaron tipping his cap to the fans during the Braves' final game of the 1964 season. |
| Date: | 01 30 1987 |
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| Description: | A woman smiles for the camera as she poses with her bowling ball. The caption reads, "Bertha Eichelberger bowls in five leagues every week." She is wearing... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, handing a baseball to an unidentified young man wearing a jacket. Two unidenti... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throwing a baseball. Two unidentified children stand in the field behind Vel. ... |
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| Description: | View from behind batter and umpire of Vel Phillips pitching a baseball. She is wearing a Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt. There are three unidenti... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing a baseball glove, hat and a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commando NAACP Youth Council" pitching a baseball. In the background sta... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of people marching in the street with Father James Groppi. There is a man driving a Milwaukee police vehicle in front, and one man... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | An African-American police officer in the foreground is talking on a phone or walkie-talkie while he is surveying the line of men and women waiting to ent... |
| Date: | 05 26 1958 |
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| Description: | A boy in a Boy Scouts uniform for Milwaukee County Council 406 is sitting on a camp stool and peeling carrots. Caption reads: "Peeling carrots was unexciti... |
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