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Vel Phillips

Date: 07 1969
Description: Vel Phillips in a buba, posing next to a chair. A textile print hangs on the wall behind her. Vel purchased the buba at an inner city arts fair and wore it...
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Vel Phillips with Two Women

Date: 07 1969
Description: Vel Phillips stands in a room with two other women. Vel is wearing a buba and holding a document with the woman in the center. Vel had purchased the buba a...
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Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Portrait of Vel Phillips sitting and posing. She is wearing a coat over a dress and matching headscarf, and is holding sunglasses in her hand.
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Vel Phillips and Coretta Scott King

Date: 10 1969
Description: Vel Phillips sitting next to Coretta Scott King. Vel is wearing two button pins on her lapel. Coretta is holding in her lap the book "My Life with Martin L...
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Vel Phillips and James Groppi at NAACP Youth Council Meeting

Date: 1967
Description: Vel Phillips at a Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council meeting. Vel is standing with a group of people on a table or stage. Below her is Father James Groppi. Vel ...
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Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a dark dress with matching elbow-length gloves and earrings. She is holding a light-colored clutch handbag. In...
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Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a dark dress. She is also wearing earrings and elbow length gloves, and is holding a fur coat in her left hand...
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Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a strapless dress with a flower detail in the center. She is wearing heels and has a satin coat draped over he...
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Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a strapless dress with a flower detail in the middle. She is also wearing a satin coat and earrings.
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Vel Phillips and Man Refected in Mirror

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Vel Phillips standing in front of a mirror. She is wearing a white dress and gloves. There is an unidentified man behind her wearing a suit. He is holding ...
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Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Portrait of Vel Phillips sitting and posing for a fashion shoot. She is wearing a dark outfit with a fur-lined coat. She has a handbag on her right arm and...
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Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Vel Phillips wearing a light-colored dress. She is wearing a white glove on her right hand and has bracelets on her left wrist. She is looking in a mirror....
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Vel Phillips Marching with NAACP at Rally

Date: 11 1967
Description: Vel Phillips marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council rally. She is wearing the organization's sweatshirt. Other unidentified people are marching wi...
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Vel Phillips Speaking with Arthur Goldberg

Date: 04 08 1961
Description: Vel Phillips stands while speaking with Arthur Goldberg, former Secretary of Labor and, at the time of the photograph, Supreme Court Justice. Another man c...
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Vel Phillips

Date: 08 11 1961
Description: Vel Phillips wearing a striped dress and a tag that reads "We're here for Wisconsin Human Rights Legislation." Phillips was taking part in a sit-in in supp...
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Vel Phillips and Carol Baumann

Date: 1968
Description: Vel Phillips, standing on the right, is wearing a necklace and earrings and a checked blouse. On the left is Carol Baumann who is wearing a floral jacket a...
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Vel Phillips with Uniformed Man

Date: 11 1962
Description: Vel Phillips (second to left) is standing and wearing a dress with a flower brooch. Next to her is Captain Al Roper in military uniform. Two unidentified w...
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Vel Phillips Campaign Brochure

Date: 1964
Description: Front of a brochure bearing the image of Vel Phillips superimposed on the outline of the state of Wisconsin and the phrase, "Now is the Time for Excellence...
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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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