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| Date: | 12 1978 |
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| Description: | Addie Wyatt, of the United Packinghouse Worker's Association, is shown seated at a desk speaking during the Merger Talks. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | African American man harvesting cotton with an experimental McCormick-Deering 2-row cotton picker mounted on a Farmall Regular tractor. |
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| Description: | Men and women wait in an International Harvester company office among desks, typewriters, and other office equipment. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste... |
| Date: | 03 16 1927 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a man pulling an experimental pull-type cotton picker through a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor. Another man is stan... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of workers grinding fertilizer with a power hammer mill. Original captions reads: "The Fish Meal Company of Fernandina, Florida, uses this Interna... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., with two leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Russell Lasley, and President Ralph Helstein. Probably at a UPWA c... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
| 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: | 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: | 11 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Michigan halfback, Gene Derricette, intercepting a pass intended for Wisconsin's Clarence Self, during their football game at Camp Randall Stadium. |
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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. |
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| Description: | Farmers Union School gathering at Highlander. A.A. Liveright smoking a pipe and holding a camera, left; Paul Bennett, right. |
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| Description: | An African American man wearing a suit making a telephone call. |
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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: | Five African American men wearing suits and singing into a microphone. There is a small farmers union sign on the back wall. |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Violence against African American journalists covering the Little Rock integration story. Here the crowd moves in on Jimmy Hicks (center, wearing a hat), t... |
| 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: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | James Forman in a SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) office. |
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