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| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates shakes hands with President Eisenhower at the Summit Conference. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Members of the National Welfare Rights Organization, some dressed in choir robes, hold candles and a cross as they are confronted by police. This is at the... |
| 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: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator John F. Kennedy, then campaigning for the presidency, speaks with Frank D. Reeves and Marjorie Lawson during a meeting of the American Council on H... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A group of people is led by Annie Devine wearing a hat and eyeglasses in the foreground, along with several men in the background. Behind them is a vehicle... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips (left) is marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council. In the background is the Lincoln Memorial. Other unidentified youth council members... |
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| Description: | A woman holds a sign that reads, "Rosedale Playground is America's Shame!" as she stands next to the playground. She is protesting the exclusion of African... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March supporting the Hawkins Humphrey Bill. Protest signs worn and held by the demonstrators read... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March walking around the White House to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the birth of Martin L... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March walking around the White House to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the birth of Martin L... |
| Date: | 01 14 1974 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson preaching at a pulpit with microphones at Shiloh Baptist Church. Members of the congregation, and singers in robes can be seen b... |
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