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| Maria Luisa Morales has worked for justice for Latinx communities in Wisconsin since the 1960s |
| Amesqua, who became Madison’s first woman fire chief in 1996, was only the seventh woman in the country to lead a fire department |
| Directed the UW–Madison’s Chicana and Latina Studies Program, was devoted to justice for working people. |
| Date: | 10 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Representatives of overseas students' organizations were greeted by University President Conrad Elvehjem, Vice-Pres. Fred Harrington, and Prof. Jonathon Cu... |
| Date: | 08 1986 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the 1986 New York Festival Latino, which was founded in 1976, produced by Joseph Papp, a Broadway producer, and directed by Oscar Ciccone ... |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz... |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz... |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz... |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Juana de Castalar (played by Alma Reubens) has her hand kissed by Blaze Derringer (Douglas Fairbanks) in a scene still for "The Americano." Reubens is cost... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | In this publicity still for "Betrayed," a 1917 Fox silent drama set in Mexico, the actors Monte Blue, Miriam Cooper, and Hobart Bosworth pose in costume ag... |
| Date: | 07 28 1960 |
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| Description: | Joseph E. O'Brien (center) and his daughter, Mary Beth, 8, are shown at their Shorewood Hills home visiting with South American labor union leaders. Carlos... |
| Date: | 07 28 1960 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth O'Brien and her daughter, Lu Ann, 4, are shown in their Shorewood Hills home extending hospitality to visiting labor union leaders Juan Duran Mar... |
| Date: | 07 28 1960 |
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| Description: | One-year-old David O'Brien reaches for the mustache of visitor Carlos Guillermo Perez Donoso from Chile. Senor Donoso is a labor union leader visiting the ... |
| Date: | 07 07 1961 |
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| Description: | Several persons from foreign lands were special guests of honor at the tea. Shown with Frances Rieser (third from left), are Mrs. T.C. Pillay of India, Edu... |
| Date: | 10 17 1965 |
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| Description: | Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, twice former president of Columbia, speaking at the Wisconsin Memorial Union on the problems of overpopulation in Latin America... |
| Date: | 05 01 2006 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of people, largely from the Latino community, marching from Walker's Point, through the downtown, to the Lake Michigan lakef... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating against United States governmental support for the Salvadoran military and government. The poster reproduces a photograph of people, incl... |
| Date: | 10 20 1988 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting on a flatbed covered in baskets of cabbages, and is holding up two cabbages. He is wearing overalls, and a cap that reads: "Puerto Rico." ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1988 |
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| Description: | A man in the foreground is holding up a cauliflower in one hand and holding a machete in the other. In the background six other people are working in a cab... |
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