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Zilphia Horton Talking to Oil Worker

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Description: Zilphia Horton talking to an oil worker from the CIO school.
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TERN Worker Exchange Reunion Tour

Date: 10 2003
Description: Group portrait of eight people posing at a table in a restaurant. Caption reads: "TERN [Tennessee Economic Renewal Network] Worker Exchange Reunion Tour: D...
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Workers on Strike

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Description: A worker on strike marches past four women. He is carrying a sign.
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Woman in front of Factory

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Description: Woman worker with her back turned to the camera standing in front of the Clintonville Four Wheel Drive factory.
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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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USO Staff Serve Soldiers

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Description: A smiling USO staff worker serves pancakes to hungry soldiers.
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ACA Strikers

Date: 1946
Description: American Communications Association union members picketing while on strike against Western Union. They are carrying signs that read: "Western Union Worker...
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Chinese Sporting Goods Factory

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Description: Propaganda photograph received from China Features in Peking by the Southern Patriot newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky. The photograph illustrat...
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Anniversary of JFK Assassination

Date: 11 1964
Description: Delegates from the International Labor Press Association place a marker on the grave of President John F. Kennedy to mark the first anniversary of his deat...
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Alabama Textile Workers Conference

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Description: Image caption reads: "Textile workers conference, Central Alabama, 1939-seated back row Weatherspoon, next Zilphia Horton, next Alabama director, behind po...
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AFL v. CIO

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Description: Women workers at the Swift Company plant pass up literature passed out by AFL representatives before a National Labor Relations Board election. The Packing...
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Freedom Day

Date: 02 28 1964
Description: Civil rights activities near the Canton, Mississippi courthouse. Two police officers are pictured holding shot guns and carrying bags of tear gas equipment...
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Migrant Worker March

Date: 08 1966
Description: View of a group of migrant workers carrying signs during a march from Wautoma to Madison to promote workers' rights. Some of the people are carrying the im...
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Office

Date: 10 05 1921
Description: Interior of the company president's office. President Martin P. Winther and a female worker are seated at desks.
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Union Worker Supports Civil Rights

Date: 1960
Description: Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W...

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