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| Date: | 04 19 1849 |
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| Description: | Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu... |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro... |
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| Description: | Poster for Freedom Day depicting a chained hand reaching for keys. The text includes "Number 2--February 22. Come March with Dr. King! No Forms!! No Tests!... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Map reads: "Map of the United States of America with its Territories and Districts - Including also a part of Upper and Lower Canada and Mexico". The map i... |
| Date: | 11 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protest in Detroit, November 3, 1970. Text at the top reads: "Nov. 3 — Elections Are A Hoax!" Handwritten on the le... |
| Date: | 06 15 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Rat Subterranean News," an underground newspaper, featuring Hubert Humphrey dressed as a police officer wearing a gas mask and a tie around his n... |
| Date: | 04 1966 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni... |
| Date: | 03 17 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Burning River Oracle," a free underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of Jesus Christ crucified in front of the silhouette of an urban landsca... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Tom Hayden, in the center wearing the dark shirt, looking at a police officer talking to four African-American men. Newark ERAP project. From the SDS colle... |
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| Description: | Page 2 of a leaflet entitled "The Little Rock Story", apparently intended by its publisher, American Nationalist, to persuade NAACP sympathizers in Little ... |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster of an African American man in a straw hat and overalls seated in front of a weathered building. Text in th... |
| Date: | 02 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the liberation of Angela Davis, an American Communist organizer and professor associated with the Black Panther movement. Created by The... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster for a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) march against racist unemployment, taking place March 20, 1971, in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, C... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for University of Wisconsin students to visit Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1971 as part of a civil disobedience demonstration. Features ... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Enlarged version of a mocking "warning card" to be placed in railroad trains, buses, streetcars, and other public forums. Warning reads, "Beware! Young and... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Recruitment poster for a Soviet Jewry Freedom Bus, advocating the liberation of the Soviet Jewish population. Features large chain links and the phrase "Le... |
| Date: | 10 1967 |
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| Description: | Poster with a large image of the Dow Riot (Oct. 18, 1967) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, showing riot police beating protesters. Includes t... |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster alleging that six men, possibly University of Wisconsin-Madison students, are undercover narcotics agents. Poster was created by the defense league ... |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
| Date: | 05 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a rally and candlelight march around the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall and Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. Presiden... |
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