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| Date: | 06 1972 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ... |
| Date: | 11 1962 |
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| 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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| Description: | Former President Jimmy Carter addressing a crowd of people in a classroom. Vel Phillips is on the far left standing next to the President. A group of peopl... |
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| Description: | Rear view of President Jimmy Carter and Vel Phillips standing in a classroom talking with a group of people. There is a map on the left and a chalkboard in... |
| Date: | 01 17 1980 |
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| Description: | Group portrait at Horicon Marsh. Vel Phillips stands in the middle of the group wearing a coat and dark pants. The man on the far right is W. Dale Phillips... |
| Date: | 07 1980 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips wearing pearls and a name tag sitting at a table. |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips being carried on the shoulders of Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council members. On the right is Father James Groppi speaking into a microphone on a p... |
| Date: | 05 17 1905 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of students and teachers of an integrated class at Eastman School. They are posing in front of the schoolhouse, and a flag is displa... |
| Date: | 10 1998 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips standing beside Jeannetta Robinson. Jeannetta is holding a plaque that awards the James Howard Baker Award to Career Youth Development, Inc. f... |
| Date: | 10 1998 |
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| Description: | Group portrait, from left: Curtis Harris, Jeannetta Robinson, Donald Sykes, Vel Phillips, and Rose Lue-Hing. Vel Phillips is wearing a red suit coat. |
| Date: | 05 09 1992 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips speaking at a podium. She is wearing a light blue suit. The sign on the podium reads: "YWCA of Greater Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing a checkered suit and holding a glass award next to a podium. A man wearing a suit stands next to her. The sign on the podium reads: "... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing a checkered suit is displaying a glass award while standing next to a podium. A man wearing a suit stands next to her. The sign on th... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing a coat and a hat, stands on a gravel road with her husband, W. Dale Phillips, who is wearing a coat and eyeglasses. The marsh is in t... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Alderman Martin E. Schreiber, President of the Milwaukee Common Council, is on a podium wearing a suit. On the left is Vel Phillips who is wearing a dress.... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips is at a podium speaking to a crowd of people, some of whom are standing behind a street barricade. She is wearing a dress. In the bottom right... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay helping lift the Lindsay Street sign to be installed. Phillips is wearing a dress and is in front of Lindsay, who is weari... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | President of the Milwaukee Common Council Martin E. Schreiber is at the podium. He is wearing a suit and glasses. On the left is Bernice Lindsay who is wea... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Bernice Lindsay is on a podium. She is wearing a coat and a hat. A man is filming her speech. On the ground is the street sign in her honor. Part of the N ... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Bernice Lindsay posing with the street sign named after her. Part of the N. Lindsay Street Dedication ceremony. She is wearing a coat and a hat. Three unid... |
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