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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A sign on the roof of a car that says, "Grapes = Poverty" supporting the United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO grape boycott. The car is parked on a street in f... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of young migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field in a Chevy station wagon for a union rally in Portage. Three children are looking at the ca... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, left, is leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm workers' union. In the center, legal counsel David Loeffler and o... |
| Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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| Description: | Father Michael Garrigan in the background wearing a white robe and glasses holding 8 a.m. mass at St. Joseph's Church with 30 marchers before a Obreros Uni... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Reverend Barry Shaw, of the Wisconsin Council of Churches, speaks at the microphone addressing a rally in Wautoma. Behind him are Jesus Salas and Salvador ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa... |
| Sourcebook, PowerPoint Presentation, Video |
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| Help students learn about the civil rights era with resources designed for teaching about Freedom Summer. Access original source documents, images, video |
Paperback: $18.95
256 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN: 9780870206788
Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| How Wisconsin Created the Workday |
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| Discover the history of the labor movement in Wisconsin and how it created the modern work week. |
| For Immediate Release |
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| The Wisconsin Historical Society has announced the listing of the 16th Street Viaduct in the National Register of Historic Places. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn banner hanging from the bay window of a home. The banner features a cartoon, rear view, of a boy holding an American flag, with his arm around a... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View from intersection towards protestors waiting for the school bus carrying minority students from Roxbury High School to South Boston High School. They ... |
| Wisconsin and the Civil War: Camp Randall |
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| Use the letters of Civil War solders to take a closer look at Camp Randall and Wisconsin's role in the Civil War |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A sign stapled to a tree on a labor camp that says "No trespassing/Visitors will be prosecuted under Section 943.13, Wis. State." This sign was typically u... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Obreros Unidos (United Workers) demonstrators painting signs at a Milwaukee rally. In the background, a man is painting the National Farmworker's (NFW) Azt... |
| Do you want to see if anyone from your state or community participated in the 1964 Freedom Summer Project? Search over 1,600 names. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in front of Hartford Store cucumber receiving station watch over polls on union election day. The ballot box is on the left side of the tab... |
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