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Vel Phillips and James Groppi at NAACP Youth Council Meeting
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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 is watching an unidentified man in a NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt who is talking to a crowd of youth council members.
1967
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W013M49
WHi 119129
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