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Packinghouse Workers at Cutting Table

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Description: A group of African American packinghouse workers at an unidentified location cutting slabs of pork.
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Printing Pamphlets at Highlander

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Description: Two men creating pamphlets using a mimeograph duplicator machine at Highlander Folk School. The African American man to the right is wearing a button that...
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Factory Workers at West Pullman Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory workers handle metal parts at West Pullman Works.
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West Pullman Works Factory Assembly Line

Date: 1944
Description: Factory workers work on an assembly line at West Pullman Works.
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Farmers Union Baseball Game

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Description: Farmers Union baseball game at Highlander Folk School.
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Civil Rights Workshop Members Wearing Hats

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Description: Two members, one male and one female, of a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School, participating in a game. The man is wearing a homemade hat.
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Summer Youth Project Dance Class

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Description: Three African American men, wearing no shirts or shoes, leaning over as if to stretch. At Highlander Folk School, part of the Summer Youth Project dance cl...
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Norman M . Ward

Date: 04 23 1948
Description: African-American man, Norman M., Ward (aka Paul Nokomis) 18-year-old Chicagoan who was sent to jail to await sentence when he pleaded guilty to larceny and...
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Packinghouse Workers at an Oyster Plant

Date: 1965
Description: Packinghouse workers at an oyster plant in some part of Maryland.
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Woman With Baby On Screen

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Description: A woman with a large projected image of a baby behind her. Possibly a film being screened at Highlander Folk School.
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Packinghouse Picket Line

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Description: Striking packinghouse workers on a picket line at an unidentified locality. Sign on side of building reads, "W & W Pickle Co."
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At the Fish Pond

Date: 05 1902
Description: Small group of people, including Alex Krueger, Mrs. E.S. Goetsch, Barnie Goetsch, and Dorothy Goetsch at a fishing hole in Shelby Co.
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Tom Hayden

Date: 1964
Description: Tom Hayden talking to two African-American women on house steps. The woman in the center is Terry Jefferson (as identified by Hayden).
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Tom Hayden

Date: 1964
Description: Tom Hayden, in the center wearing the dark shirt, looking at a police officer talking to four African-American men. Newark ERAP project. From the SDS colle...
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Tom Hayden

Date: 10 1964
Description: Tom Hayden standing in front of building with a small African-American child. Poster on window for "The Trenton Project" and two posters advocating that p...
Book or Pamphlet

Slave Catchers

Date: 1849
Description: Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves.
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L.A. Blackman Outside Highlander Library

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Description: L.A. Blackman, from Elloree, South Carolina, standing outside of Highlander Library.
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Alabama Ore Workers

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Description: Two ore workers. A pin that reads, "Mine-Mill-CIO" is affixed to the hardhat of the left man.
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Koinonia Children's Camp at Highlander

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Description: A group of boys relaxing during Highlander Folk School Koinonia Children's Camp.
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Five Men Singing

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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.

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