Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
Date: | 1966 |
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Description: | Lloyd Barbee and others gathered in front of the Milwaukee County Courthouse for a rally addressing Civil Rights, education, housing, and police brutality.... |
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: | 07 19 1968 |
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Description: | Cover of "Berkeley Barb," an underground newspaper, featuring a photomontage of politically charged images, mostly relating to the Civil Rights movement. C... |
Date: | 02 17 1970 |
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Description: | Cover of "The Black Panther: Black Community News Service," an underground newspaper, commemorating the birthday of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey New... |
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Description: | Vera McCampbell, former teacher in Grundy County, who came to the mountains with May Justus before Highlander Folk School was started in 1932, testifying d... |
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Description: | Myles Horton testifying during a hearing for the Highlander Folk School investigation in Grundy County. |
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Description: | Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 - 1977), an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader, visiting the Highlander Folk School. Two men are standing in th... |
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Description: | Portrait of Myra Page, an author and Antioch coop student, who was both a student and later a teacher at Highlander Folk School. |
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Description: | Tom Ludwig and Vida Cox [Ludwig], a neighbor of Highlander Folk School, sitting in a Jeep together after having been married. The couple met while at the s... |
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Description: | Alice Cobb (left), a Highlander Folk School staff member, and an unidentified workshop participant during a Civil Rights workshop at the school. |
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Description: | Alice Cobb (right) and Bernice Robinson (left), in front of the main school building. |
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Description: | Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette. |
Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors. |
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Description: | Signed photograph of Guy Carawan, a folk musician, playing an open-backed 5-string banjo. Presented to Highlander Folk School. Inscription reads, "Wishing ... |
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Description: | Myles Horton visiting citizenship school sewing class for younger members; teacher, Bernice Robinson. "Modernage" sewing machine featured. |
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Description: | Interior view of the entrance to the Highlander Library, with a CIO student entering the doorway. The poster on the window reads: "CIO says, 'Wipe out Disc... |
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Description: | Shell labor rally at an unknown location. Signs include the sayings, "Equal Pay for Women," "Negro and White, Unite and Fight," and "Let the Packers Pay O... |
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Description: | CIO school in the 1940s. Features two women reviewing the "Highlander Flash," a newsletter produced by the Highlander Folk School. |
Date: | 12 09 1947 |
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Description: | IUMM & SW Institute for Educational Techniques, Political Action! To keynote the intensive efforts this union would be making in the future, Jessie Dansby... |
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