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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
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| Description: | Aileen Brewer going over paperwork with two students at Edisto Island Citizenship Schools. |
| Date: | 04 1948 |
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| Description: | As an empty truck is entering the Cudahy Packing Company plant in Kansas City, Kansas, striking United Packinghouse employees threaten the drivers by appea... |
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| Description: | Herbert Biberman, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten who were jailed for failure to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | James E. Doyle Sr., head of the Americans For Democratic Action (1953-1954), at an ADA meeting (perhaps 1954) with Eleanor Roosevelt. As chair of the Wisco... |
| Date: | 04 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens (left) watches as Senator Joseph R. McCarthy raises a point of order as the Army-McCarthy hearings begin. Also seated... |
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| Description: | Two women at the blackboard during a Wadmalaw Island citizenship group evening class. |
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| Description: | A man and woman standing in front of Bellinger's Grocery store and gas station. |
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| Description: | Civil Rights workshop of Highlander participants partaking in an oyster feast on Johns Island. |
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| Description: | Bernice Williams working with a younger CIO member on a sewing machine at the South Carolina Citizenship group. |
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| Description: | Civil rights group meeting in field at Highlander Lake. Fifth from the left, Charlotte Meacham, American Friends Service Committee, former Highlander stud... |
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| Description: | A woman writing on a chalkboard as part of the Citizenship School on Johns Island. |
| Date: | 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Four women and a man eating at a table at a Civil Rights banquet at Highlander Folk School. Septima Clark, second from left. |
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| Description: | Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislatur... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Seven chorus girls from "The Singing Kid" surround Al Jolson. |
| Date: | 08 21 1967 |
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| Description: | About 80 Israeli students and members of the Milwaukee chapter of American Friends of Hebrew University attended a picnic Sunday at the Beaver Lake home of... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of Zilphia Horton. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a bearded man sitting on a rock. The tops of the heads of three people are visible in the lower foreground. |
| Date: | 04 11 1969 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lloyd Knox demonstrating the technique of making spoon bread. |
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