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Vel Phillips at W Brown Street

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Description: View looking up towards Vel Phillips standing at a podium. She is wearing a coat and gloves and speaking into a microphone. Snow is falling. There is a tra...
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Vel Phillips Helping Child in Street

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Description: View down street towards Vel Phillips, who is crouching down near the curb at an intersection helping a child laying in the street. Her handbag is next to ...
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Vel Phillips Addressing Group

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: 6th Ward Milwaukee Alderman Vel Phillips is wearing a dress and standing on a podium. To the right are Bernice Lindsay and Reverend Lovell Johnson standing...
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Vel Phillips and News Media

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is on a podium wearing a dress. To the left are two members of the media holding recording equipment who are documenting the N Lindsay Street ...
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Vel Phillips Introduces Bernice Lindsay

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is in a dress on a podium. She is next to Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. Behind them is Reverend Lovell Johnson, who is wea...
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Vel Phillips Addressing Crowd

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is at a podium speaking to a crowd of people, some of whom are standing behind a street barricade. She is wearing a dress. In the bottom right...
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Lifting the Lindsay Street Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay helping lift the Lindsay Street sign to be installed. Phillips is wearing a dress and is in front of Lindsay, who is weari...
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Lovell Johnson Addresses Group

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Reverend Lovell Johnson of St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church is on a podium in a coat and hat. On her right are Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay...
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Installing Lindsay Street Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is wearing a colorful dress. On the right is Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. Both are looking at a worker who is installing ...
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Bernice Lindsay Approaching Podium

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is behind the podium in a dress. She is reaching out her hand for Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. An unidentified person is ...
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Martin Schreiber Addressing Group

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Alderman Martin E. Schreiber, President of the Milwaukee Common Council, is on a podium wearing a suit. On the left is Vel Phillips who is wearing a dress....
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Bernice Lindsay with Street Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Bernice Lindsay posing with the street sign named after her. Part of the N. Lindsay Street Dedication ceremony. She is wearing a coat and a hat. Three unid...
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Bernice Lindsay Addresses Crowd

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Bernice Lindsay is on a podium. She is wearing a coat and a hat. A man is filming her speech. On the ground is the street sign in her honor. Part of the N ...
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Bernice Lindsay Under Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Bernice Lindsay is standing under a new reflected street name sign in her honor. She is wearing a coat, a hat, and a broach. Beside her is a fire hydrant. ...
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Martin Schreiber Addressing Crowd

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: President of the Milwaukee Common Council Martin E. Schreiber is at the podium. He is wearing a suit and glasses. On the left is Bernice Lindsay who is wea...

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