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Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'...
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Sanitation Workers Carrying Trash to Garbage Truck

Date: 1976
Description: View down sidewalk of two African-American sanitation workers carrying cans and sacks of trash to a garbage truck, is stopped in a residential neighborhood...
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Woolworth's Protestors and Law Enforcement Officers

Date: 1964
Description: A group of protestors and law enforcement officers walk along the sidewalk across the street from a Woolworth's department store during a Freedom Summer de...
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Voting Rights Protesters

Date: 1964
Description: View down sidewalk of two male protestors wearing signs around their necks walking down a sidewalk in a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. The sign...

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