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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Johnnie Tillmon addressing a Mother's Day March on Washington, ca. 1968 or 1969. George Wiley is sitting directly behind her, on the left. Ethel Kennedy is... |
| Date: | 09 02 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette, the younger son of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a crowd in the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fair in ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., speaking into the microphone on the WLS stage at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the time the Chicago station was best known f... |
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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... |
| Date: | 01 11 1951 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Legislature listens to a speech by Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. The senators are seated in the first row, with Warren Knowles seated ... |
| Date: | 05 07 1969 |
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| Description: | Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, speaking at a Savings Bond rally at the Pentagon. On the platform is actress Ann Margaret wearing a short ... |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at the Eleventh Congress of the United States Student Association at Ohio Wesleyan University. |
| Date: | 03 16 1968 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert F. Kennedy announcing his candidacy for the office of President of the United States. The announcement took place in the Caucus Room of the ... |
| Date: | 1994 |
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| Description: | Senator Herbert H. Kohl, Russ Feingold, and Hillary Clinton. Sign on podium says "Health Care That's Always There, The National Health Care Campaign". |
| Date: | 01 03 1979 |
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| Description: | After being sworn in, Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus delivers his inaugural address. Second from the right is the former acting governor, Martin Schreiber, w... |
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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: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
| Date: | 09 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Cornerstone laying ceremony at the new Queen of Apostles seminary, 5810 Cottage Grove Road. Seated, left to right, are Rev. Edward Kinney, Madison, secreta... |
| Date: | 10 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Rt. Rev. Adaltbert Turowski, Vatican City, Rome, father general of the Catholic Pallottine Order which will operate the seminary, shown addressing the audi... |
| Date: | 05 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particul... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Democratic mayoral candidate (and future mayor) Carl Zeidler speaking to an audience using a microphone. |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt addressing a labor union audience from a podium. |
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