Date: | 05 29 1958 |
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Description: | Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957, looking throu... |
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Description: | Interior view of the entrance to the Highlander Library, with a CIO student entering the doorway. The poster on the window reads: "CIO says, 'Wipe out Disc... |
Date: | 08 1957 |
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Description: | The Little Rock home of Daisy and L.C. Bates, showing their front window after a stone had been thrown through the window. Grates have been placed on this ... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
Date: | 07 1965 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Delta Ministry Office at 722 Mobile Street taken by a civil rights volunteer. Rev. Robert Beech was the director. "The office was... |
Date: | 07 1965 |
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Description: | A church photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Summit 2nd Sunday church. Rev. Shaw[?] minister. Because a nearby neighbor who was sitting up all nig... |
Date: | 07 1965 |
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Description: | Lodge Hall on Highway 98, photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Another picture of the Lodge Hall, Summit, the site of our first freedom meetings. [... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | The interior of a Freedom House, used by civil rights workers, is decorated with a United States flag and several posters on a wall. A bench below the flag... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Front view of the Pheba Freedom House, used by civil rights workers. Along the walls and doors, bullet holes have been highlighted with circles. |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | A woman and a teenage girl are looking out the windows of a building during unrest following court-ordered school desegregation busing. |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | Two students are standing behind a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray ... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | Two students stand next to a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray painte... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | Racist graffiti spray painted on the wall of a South Boston housing project. It reads: "We HATE Niggers." This image was captured during the unrest followi... |
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Description: | Five women are sitting and one man is standing in the Highlander Library. The UN Charter is displayed behind them. |
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