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Lloyd Barbee

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Lloyd A. Barbee, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Photograph

Audience at Shiloh Baptist Church

Date: 01 14 1974
Description: Audience at Shiloh Baptist Church listening to the Reverend Jesse Jackson. This may be a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) event.
Photograph

Bathtime

Date: 
Description: A young girl is sitting in a galvanized washtub on the floor in front of an oil burning stove and an armchair. Flowered wallpaper covers the walls. [The bo...
Book or Pamphlet

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304 pages, 34 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870208386

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Photograph

Waiting to Be Bused to South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students from Columbia Point waiting outdoors to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are walking, and a few are clowning for the cam...
Photograph

Raising a Fist

Date: 1975
Description: A school boy is raising a fist for the photographer while sitting with a group of his friends. Handwritten caption on the reverse: "These boys asked us to ...
Photograph

Waiting to Be Bused to South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students from Columbia Point waiting to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are standing in groups, talking. School buses are parked...
Photograph

David Duke Recruiting

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "David Duke, Grand Dragon of the Baton Rouge Ku Klux Klan trying to recruit South Boston residents, teenagers idolized him, l...
Photograph

David Duke Recruiting for KKK

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "David Duke, Grand Dragon of the Baton Rouge Ku Klux Klan, trying to recruit South Boston residents. Teenagers idolized him, ...
Photograph

South Boston Children

Date: 1975
Description: Students from South Boston are posing and clowning on a curb near a street corner. Older students are standing or sitting on chain-link fence. In the backg...
Photograph

Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of students are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. Two boys are holding an effigy of an African-American man. In the ...
Photograph

Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of South Boston teenagers posing with an effigy of an African-American man. In the background is a chain-link fence, shrubs and a housing project. ...
Photograph

"La Guardia" Newspaper Organizers

Date: 1969
Description: Roberto Hernandez (left) and Esequiel Guzman (center) work on the layout of "La Guardia" newspaper. The underground bilingual newspaper was published in Sp...
News Release

20th Street School Listed in the State Register of Historic Places

For Immediate Release
The Wisconsin Historical Society placed the 20th Street School (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County) in the State Register of Historic Places
Photograph

Singing at Shiloh Baptist Church

Date: 01 14 1974
Description: A woman choir member with a microphone and robe is singing at Shiloh Baptist Church. The Reverend Jesse Jackson delivered the sermon at this service.
Photograph

Mine Entrance

Date: 
Description: Two men are standing in front of the entrance to a mine. Vertical beams are just inside the entrance. The man on the left has a cloth sack draped over his ...
National or State Registers Record

2944 N 9th ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: St. Matthew Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Reference Number: 100003909
Photograph

Woman Shaking Her Fist at School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ...
News Release

October 8, 2018 - Wisconsin Historical Society to Present the City of New Richmond with the 2018 Board of Curators Public Program Award at Historical Marker Unveiling Ceremony

For Immediate Release
On October 9, WHS will present the City of New Richmond with the 2018 Board of Curators Public Program Award.
Book or Pamphlet

Paperback: $19.95
115 pages, 8½ x 11
ISBN: 978-0-87020-754-9

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