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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: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt and national co-chair Leon Henderson (right) at a dinner sponsored by the Union for Democratic Action (later Americans for Democratic Act... |
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| Description: | Civil rights activist Anne Braden speaking to a rally that was called by the National Anti-Klan Network, an organization of which she was a founder. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A copy of a painting of a man sitting on a porch, entitled "Independence" by Frank Blackwell Mayer (1827-1899), a prominent 19th century American genre pai... |
| Date: | 02 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Admiral William D. Leahy, the personal representative of President Truman, greets former Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Washington D.C. airport. L... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three Confederate veterans sitting in a tent at the National Confederate Reunion. |
| Date: | 02 22 2012 |
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| Description: | A homeless man is sitting on Saint Patrick's Catholic Church's steps as a woman on the sidewalk is walking past. |
| 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: | Robert Nathan at an Americans for Democratic Action event. |
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| Description: | Edward Hollander is seated with an unidentified woman at an Americans for Democratic Action event. |
| Date: | 03 20 1939 |
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| Description: | Leaving the White House after their Social Security conference with President Roosevelt are (left to right): John Hanes, Undersecretary of the Treasury; Ar... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic sharing a toast with Senator Theodore Green, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of a man wearing sunglasses standing outside the entrance to the Hotel Martinique. He holds a cigarette in one hand and a camera bag in ... |
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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: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Delegate Walter E. Fauntroy and Representative Bella Abzug at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March supporting the pro... |
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