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| Date: | 04 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Henry "Hank" Aaron at bat during a Milwaukee Braves pre-season game. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
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| Description: | Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard. |
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| Description: | Bernice Robinson with students at first citizenship school at Johns Island. |
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| Description: | Seated portrait of Peter D. Thomas (1847-1925) of Racine. Thomas was an escaped slave who joined the 15th Wisconsin Regiment during its service in Tennesse... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) delegates at 1957 convention with Herbert Hill. From left to right are Ollie Webb, Richard Miller, Charles Ha... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop... |
| 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: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of L.C. Bates, editor and publisher of the the "Arkansas State Press," a crusading Little Rock newspaper and the husband of the Ark... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin... |
| Date: | 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather. |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an African American Civil War soldier from Hughes and Meltzer, "A pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
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| Description: | Two Black Civil War soldiers from Hughes and Metzer "Pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Mal Whitfield approaches the finish line of a track race at the University of Wisconsin Stadium. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop. |
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