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Frame 19: "We Want to Vote"

Date: 1964
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...
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Frame 21: Police Grabbing Girl by Arm - She is Not Intimidated

Date: 07 16 1964
Description: Police drag away 15-year-old Annie Lee Turner. Officers are wearing helmets and holding batons. A couple of men with cameras are walking towards the person...
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Woolworth's Protest

Date: 1964
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...
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Woolworth's Protest

Date: 1964
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...
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Woolworth's Protestors and Law Enforcement Officers

Date: 1964
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...
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Woolworth's Protestors and Law Enforcement Officers

Date: 1964
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...
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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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Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
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Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Murder Weapon

Date: 11 23 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "A Dallas Policeman holds the murder weapon used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy high over his...
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Awards for Safe Driving

Date: 06 30 1960
Description: Three Madison Railway Express agency drivers receive awards for safe driving from Capt. W.A. Randall, left, of the Madison police department. The drivers a...
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Juvenile Delinquency Addressed

Date: 05 25 1965
Description: Angelo Gonzalez, a former New York City street gang leader, presented a plan to end juvenile delinquency to Madison police officers, judges, and probation ...
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George Wallace Protest

Date: 03 18 1964
Description: A large group of people, many carrying signs opposing George Wallace, gather in downtown Oshkosh near a Wallace rally. Some of the signs read: "You'll wond...

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