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| Date: | 09 15 1928 |
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| Description: | Street scene featuring the Old Absinthe House, a famous New Orleans establishment in the city's French Quarter. The building was built in 1806 by Pedro Fro... |
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| Description: | A carte-de-visite of a slave sitting with three children. The text at the bottom read: "Learning is Wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, & Rosa. Slaves from N... |
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| Description: | A woman and two young children are shown in a farm market. |
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| Description: | Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
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| Description: | An African American family standing on the porch of their home, behind a wooden picket fence. |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare gather outside the convention hall. |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Mary McLeod Bethune, noted civil rights leader and educator, is introduced to the audience at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Ri... |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Mary McLeod Bethune (left), noted educator and civil rights leader, at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Rights. The woman to her... |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) vote on a resolution. |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Aubrey Williams (seated at right), who would become president of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) at the annual convention of the Southern Con... |
| Date: | 09 04 1919 |
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| Description: | A man in a hat drives an International model "G" truck carrying logs with a wagon past a building. On the image is written: "Weight of load, "16.000.LB", a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in an International model "G" truck pulling a wagon with logs tied together on top of it. Several logs are stacked on top of wood beams to ... |
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| Description: | Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, with Hilton Hanna, of Madison, Wisconsin, also a leader in that interna... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Huet Freeman of the Southern Mutual Help Association of Louisiana and two of his children after winning three-quarters of a million dollars for farm worker... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Three children stand holding signs along with adults. They're protesting city neglect of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. In the background are musicians on ... |
| Date: | 09 10 1965 |
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| Description: | A New Orleans group hold signs as they rally at Mercy Seat Baptist Church for compensation for lives lost and 25,000 homes ruined during a flood. Reverend ... |
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| Description: | A group of flood victims stand in the rain after (Hurricane) Betsy at Algers Naval Base, where conditions were inadequate for them. |
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| Description: | A portrait of an old African American couple sitting on a porch. The woman on the left is smoking a pipe and is holding a small dog in her lap, and the man... |
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