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Jose Angel Gutierrez

Date: 06 12 1976
Description: Casual outdoor portrait of Judge Jose Angel Gutierrez of Zabala County, Texas. He was attending the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Polici...
Photograph

Marion Barry

Date: 06 12 1976
Description: Casual portrait of Councilman Marion Barry of Washington, D.C., sitting on a railing, eating an apple. He was attending the Conference on Alternative State...
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Ilona Hancock

Date: 06 12 1976
Description: Casual outdoor portrait of City Councilwoman Ilona (Loni) Hancock, from Berkeley, California, speaking while sitting outdoors, in a group. She was attendin...
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Sheriff Richard Hongisto

Date: 06 1976
Description: Casual outdoor portrait of Richard Hongisto, reclining on a lawn. He was the sheriff of San Francisco, and was elected November 3rd, 1971 and served one an...
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Sam Brown

Date: 06 12 1976
Description: Activist Sam W. Brown, Jr., speaking while standing at a podium on a lawn in a large outdoor space. The event is the Conference on Alternative State and Lo...
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Selling Pictures of President Allende

Date: 11 03 1970
Description: A smiling young man is selling pictures of President Allende on the street on Inauguration Day. He was the first Socialist President of Chile. In the backg...
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Wall Slogan in Santiago

Date: 
Description: View from intersection towards a blocked off street with political graffiti on the wall of a building in Santiago, Chile. On the left is a a depiction of C...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: Two students are standing behind a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray ...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: Two students stand next to a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray painte...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre...
Photograph

School Boycott Leader

Date: 1975
Description: Donna Connolly, wearing sunglasses, is standing on the sidewalk in South Boston with some of her children. She was one of the leaders of the school boycott...
Photograph

Girls Playing in the Street

Date: 1974
Description: Two girls are rolling about in the street on small, foot-powered, six-wheeled ATV toys, and a man is standing on the corner next to a building with a billb...
Photograph

Children Hanging Effigy in South Boston Project

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project preparing to hang an effigy of a black man." Children are lined up along a chain-link fenc...
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Students Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of children are hanging an effigy of an African-American man in a dead tree, creating a mock lynching. One of the boys is sitting on a limb of the ...
Photograph

Children Burning Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project burn the effigy of a black man." The mock-lynching was staged by a group of students in th...
News Release

February 28, 2019 - Wisconsin Historical Society Placed the St. Matthew Christian Methodist Episcopal Church on the State Register of Historic Places

For Immediate Release
The Wisconsin Historical Society placed the St. Matthew Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Milwaukee on the State Register of Historic Places.
News Release

June 17, 2019 - St. Matthew Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Listed in National Register of Historic Places

For Immediate Release
WHS has announced the listing of the St. Matthew Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the National Register of Historic Places.
Photograph

Bill Smith and Mark Erenberg

Date: 1967
Description: On the left, Bill Smith, administrative assistant for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), the Wisconsin migrant farm workers' union. On the right, Mark Erenbe...
Map or Atlas

Map for Canton Boycott

Date: 1963
Description: A map with handwritten notes and locations for Freedom Fighters participating in the Canton Boycott, for orientation during picketing. It is not a map show...
Photograph

Jeff Friedman

Date: 1976
Description: Casual outdoor portrait of Mayor Jeff Friedman of Austin. He was attending the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies held on the St. Ed...

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