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Carl Braden

Date: 1955
Description: Prison identification photograph of Carl Braden after his conviction for sedition.
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Braden Center

Date: 1973
Description: Group standing in front of the SCEF (Southern Conference Education Fund) headquarters. The group includes Anne Braden in the blue jacket, and Carl Braden ...
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UFCW Strike

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Description: Strike of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 227 against a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Identified among the picketers are Rev. Charles...
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UFCW Strike

Date: 10 1981
Description: Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253.
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Garment Workers Strike

Date: 1972
Description: Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on strike against the Kellwood Company.
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Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
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SCHW Convention

Date: 11 1946
Description: Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare gather outside the convention hall.
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Mary McLeod Bethune

Date: 11 1946
Description: Mary McLeod Bethune (left), noted educator and civil rights leader, at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Rights. The woman to her...
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Aubrey Williams at SCHW Meeting

Date: 11 1946
Description: Aubrey Williams (seated at right), who would become president of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) at the annual convention of the Southern Con...
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Steelworkers Strike

Date: 1980
Description: Distribution of picket signs to striking members of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8888. The local was on strike against Tenneco.
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Fred Shuttlesworth

Date: 02 03 1964
Description: The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth speaks to the 1964 annual meeting of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) after being elected president of the organ...
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Gwen Patten

Date: 1991
Description: Gwen Patton reporting on the Southern Rainbow Education Project to a conference called by the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC).
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Richard Arrington, Jr.

Date: 10 1991
Description: Richard Arrington, Jr. (at the microphone), the first black to be elected mayor of Birmingham, speaks to a re-election rally. Among the supporters applaud...
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Greensboro Massacre Response

Date: 02 02 1980
Description: Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o...
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Protest March

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Description: Unidentified protest march, with the banner of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC) in front. The banner of the Milwauk...
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Diane Nash Bevel, Jailbird for Freedom

Date: 02 1963
Description: Diane Nash Bevel stands smiling beneath a small sign that reads: "Jail-Bird for Freedom!".
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Anne and Carl Braden at a Grave

Date: 06 1951
Description: Anne and Carl Braden stand at the grave of her ancestor Ann Poague McGinty. McGinty was the first white woman to settle in Kentucky.
Poster

Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...
Poster

Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...
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Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background. Text on left reads: "Vote Nov 8th Lowndes County Freedom Organization" along with an illustration of a panther. ...

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