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| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 06 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the new Governor's Commission on Human Rights which will promote tolerance on a statewide basis and fight prejudice and hate. Shown left to righ... |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Seven women committee members plan a benefit program sponsored by the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee in the home of Mrs. Grant (Esther) Haas, 1518 Su... |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the Spanish Refugee Benefit Committee are shown planning for the event. Mrs. Robert Seidl and daughter Lynn on the left, Mrs. Frank Rentz, Mrs. ... |
| Date: | 04 17 1947 |
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| Description: | David Mackin, Milwaukee World War II veteran, is shown with his monkey, Joe, in a state capitol hearing room. The bill under discussion would allow anyone ... |
| Date: | 08 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Looking on as Governor Oscar Rennebohm signed the Youth Service Bill were, left to right: Frank C. Ross, Senator Rudolph Schlabach, Tom Peterson, Judge Alb... |
| Date: | 10 09 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of Governor Oscar Rennebohm's Commission on Human Rights are shown outside of the Wisconsin State State Capitol for their first formal meeting. |
| Date: | 09 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor's Commission on Human Rights in the governor's office at the Wisconsin State Capitol discussing plans for an upcoming meeting. Pictured from the l... |
| Date: | 02 25 1949 |
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| Description: | West High School pupils Muriel Showers and Anna Pronin watch Pamela Showers, 15 months, and Joan Gmeinder, 7, model two of the outfits that clothing studen... |
| Date: | 10 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the twenty three members of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights standing on the steps of the Capitol Building. First row, left to ... |
| Date: | 12 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Speakers include Fania Davis Jordan (Angela Davis' sister), Abner Spence, and Frank Battagli... |
| Date: | 12 15 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a Young Socialist Alliance convention in New York. Topics such as "international report, anti-war, black struggle, women's liberation, a... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Madison Common (City) Council and speakers at a hearing of the Madison Housing Authority's (MHA) proposed public housing pr... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the crowd of over 500 persons attending the public hearing of the Madison Housing Authority (MHA), a committee of the Madison Common (City... |
| Date: | 09 18 1950 |
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| Description: | The Public Welfare Committee of the Wisconsin Joint Legislative Council members are: Assemblyman Robert E. Lynch, chairman; Senator William A. Draheim, vic... |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the newly-equipped preschool room at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Staff members of the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, pose around a table for a group portrait. Seated, left to right: Louise Schleicher, as... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Masthead of Racine, Wisconsin temperance publication The Old Oaken Bucket and Sons of Temperance Organ. The masthead features a bucolic scene at the... |
| Date: | 01 20 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin student leaders take action against discrimination in private-owned housing. They include, from left: Norman Barton, Frank Chalk He... |
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