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| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | View of delegates talking trade in front of International trucks at the Regular Common Carrier Conference in Memphis, TN. |
| Date: | 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Founding members of the Southern Students Organizing Committee (SSOC) at a committee meeting, discussing ways to organize white students in the South to pr... |
| Date: | 02 15 1862 |
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| Description: | "The 2nd and 7th Iowa and the 52nd Indiana headed by General Smith storming up the rebel works at Fort Donelson causing its surrender to General Grant the ... |
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| Description: | "Comisary [sic] Steamer — Pittsburgh Landing." Steamboat on river near Shiloh, Tennessee. |
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| Description: | Eleven people, including Thurgood Marshall, Anne Braden, Myles Horton, and Septima Clark, are sitting and standing during a Civil Rights meeting at Highlan... |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks on the front porch of Highlander School. The woman seated behind Ms. Roosevelt is May Justus, who, with her partner Vera McCampbel... |
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| Description: | A group of people sitting on the grass and chairs outdoors for a meeting with the Highlander Library in the background. From left to right: Father of Myles... |
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| Description: | Four people have an informal meeting outdoors at Highlander School. Three of them are seated on the grass and one is seated on a chair. Myles Horton on the... |
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| Description: | Pre-CIO meeting at Highlander School with a group of men. |
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| Description: | Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 - 1977), an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader, visiting the Highlander Folk School. Two men are standing in th... |
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| Description: | Highlander staff meeting: left to right; Tom Ludwig, Myles Horton, Catherine Winston, Zilphia Horton. |
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| Description: | Meeting in Tennessee during CIO period, on a street. |
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| Description: | A meeting at Highlander Folk School. Guy Carawan is holding a banjo on far left. Septima Clark is standing third from the left. Matt Sturgis, holding an ac... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A late 1930s early 1940s writers workshop at Highlander run by Leon Wilson. Charlie Ferguson, Editor, Reader's Digest, working with Mrs. Joe Kelly Stockt... |
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| Description: | Three men smoking cigarettes around a table, as part of a CIO meeting at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Public Community meeting at Horton House: Mom Horton, extreme left; Julia Maybee, next to her; J.D. Marlowe, a neighbor, third from right with cap on, Myle... |
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| Description: | Voter registration activists from Charleston, South Carolina. Charles Wilson seated on right. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roosevelt at the 25th anniversary of Highlander Folk School, talking with an Indian chief from Florida. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt, standing, with Myles Horton, and May Justus at the 25th anniversary of Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | From left: Zilphia Horton, Myles Horton, and Mrs. Roosevelt at a Highlander conference in connection with the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. |
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