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| Description: | A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporter... |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates, apparently wearing press badges, standing outdoors talking with an unidentified man. L.C. Bates, who is wearing a camera, is ap... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Ki... |
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| Description: | Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe. |
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| Description: | Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eight veteran Soap Box Derby racers who will be making their second or third attempts to win the city championship. They are shown liste... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i... |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women who have applied for employment at the new St. Paul Works sit around a table. They are being interviewed by representatives of Int... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Cesar Chavez (center) head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, receives a Ghandi commemorative medal from Theodore Mazarello (left) of the Gandhi Cen... |
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| Description: | S. Dillon Foss and L. McDonald of the United Packinghouse Workers of America signing a contract with the Nichols-Foss Packaging Company. |
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| Description: | Emzie Watkins, a delegate from United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 33 and an employee of the Armour Company in Birmingham, at a union convention. ... |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cedric Belfrage (center), exiled editor of the "National Guardian," at a party for Paul Robeson. The man on the left is Canon Stanley Evans. |
| Date: | 10 01 2008 |
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| Description: | President Barack Obama greeting supporters at rally. |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates accepts a gavel from The Honorable Edward F. McGlaughlin, president of the Boston City Council. She had just spoken before the Council. |
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