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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wiley Branton (left), the Little Rock NAACP attorney, and Thurgood Marshall, the special counsel of the NAACP, at the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on the ... |
| Date: | 12 03 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates confers with NAACP lawyer Robert Carter, after she was fined $100 and court costs of $150 for failure to open confidential NAACP financial and ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
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| Description: | Two views, one of a ferry and the other of a chain gang. The ferry operator poses with a man in his carriage on the ferry, with trees in the background. Th... |
| Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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| Description: | Factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a strike. A uniformed police officer looks on from the right. The workers are picketing ne... |
| Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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| Description: | International Harvester factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a "steel strike" near Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'... |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two men holding protest signs are walking down a sidewalk past a white police officer who is holding a bullhorn at a Greenwood Freedom Day. In the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A protest of Woolworth's department store during Freedom Summer. A line of people are standing on the sidewalk in front of Woolworth's show windows while a... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of male and female protestors and law enforcement officers stand on the sidewalk outside of a Woolworth's department store during Freedom Summer. O... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A line of protestors outside of a Woolworth's department store during Freedom Summer hold signs while law enforcement officers stand nearby. Two of the si... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman stands in the foreground looking at the camera, while behind her two law enforcement officers wearing helmets examine protestors during a Freedom S... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| 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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