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Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Portrait of Myra Denning Allison, daughter of Civil War veteran Charles Denning. Myra ran an interracial and international boarding house at 217 N. Mills S... |
Date: | 02 15 1961 |
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Description: | The Dane County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Brotherhood Week display, including books, recordings and other material... |
Date: | 01 11 1961 |
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Description: | Standing on a desk in the Assembly Chamber is Beth Coggs, four-year-old daughter of Assemblyman Isaac Coggs, a Democrat from Milwaukee. She is holding a do... |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Two photographs featured in a "Louisiana Story" brochure. In the top image, CORE worker Daniel Mitchell interviews a potential voter on a porch with three ... |
Date: | 09 05 1960 |
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Description: | More than 300 people attend the annual Labor Day program sponsored by the Madison Federation of Labor at the Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street. Hilton Hann... |
Date: | 09 02 1960 |
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Description: | Two African-American boys shooting water pistols at each other on a hot summer day while sitting on front porch steps. |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Several people are standing together, including Highlander Research and Education Center founder Myles Horton, and Presbyterian minister Rev. Joseph Metz R... |
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Description: | Five people in front of a chalkboard with the heading: "World Federation of Trade Unions." |
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Description: | Five women are sitting and one man is standing in the Highlander Library. The UN Charter is displayed behind them. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ... |
Date: | 10 1984 |
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Description: | Septima Clark poses in front of the Freedom Bell. |
Date: | 08 1959 |
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Description: | Septima Clark and her granddaughter Yvonne are sitting together outdoors. They are attending an interracial workshop. |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | From left to right are Esau Jackson, Morris Mitchell and Septima Clark. They are attending a dinner at Highlander Folk School. |
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Description: | Septima Clark (left) and Rosa Parks are sitting outdoors next to one another. Clark is holding her eyeglasses in her lap, and Parks is holding flowers. |
Date: | 10 1957 |
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Description: | A casual group portrait of Russell Lasley, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph Helstein. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | The front cover of a booklet titled: "A Guide To Community Action For Public School Integration." Text over image at bottom reads: "Highlander Staff Planni... |
Date: | 07 09 1982 |
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Description: | Marlene Cummings, Governor Lee Dreyfus' Advisor on Women and family Initiatives, relaxes by roller skating around the Capitol Square. In the background loo... |
Date: | 10 1988 |
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Description: | Advertisement for Helen Barnhill, Republican candidate for Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District seat in 1988 that ran in Milwaukee Times on Octobe... |
Date: | 05 10 1982 |
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Description: | Marlene Cummings, Special Advisor for Women's initiatives for Governor Lee Dreyfus, at right, in an office looking over a newsletter on women's initiatives... |
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Description: | Three-quarter profile portrait of World War II veteran, Baptist minister, and civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy, the 2nd President of the Southern Chri... |
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