Date: | 05 26 1959 |
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Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particul... |
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Description: | Father James Groppi, seen wearing sunglasses in the middle of a crowd, leads a demonstration against discrimination. |
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Description: | The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration. |
Date: | 09 09 1979 |
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Description: | A large group of people rallying in support of gay rights at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. They are listening to a man playing guitar. Man... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer. |
Date: | 10 13 1949 |
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Description: | Group portrait of the twenty three members of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights standing on the steps of the Capitol Building. First row, left to ... |
Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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Description: | Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company. |
Date: | 09 19 1955 |
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Description: | Roy Bryant, one of the two men charged with the murder of Emmett Till who had allegedly whistled at Bryant's wife, Carolyn. She sits at Bryant's right, and... |
Date: | 03 1965 |
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Description: | Ralph Helstein (second from the left), the president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with other union leaders on the first day of the civil ... |
Date: | 05 1957 |
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Description: | Members of the Chicago delegation to the Prayer Pilgrimmage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march. |
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Description: | Five women are seated with an ACORN banner over the blackboard behind them. A man is seated behind them on the right. |
Date: | 09 1978 |
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Description: | Wade Rathke seated at an ACORN meeting next to a woman. |
Date: | 09 1978 |
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Description: | Wade Rathke, far right, is seated at an ACORN meeting with two other people. |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | Three children stand holding signs along with adults. They're protesting city neglect of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. In the background are musicians on ... |
Date: | 09 10 1965 |
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Description: | A New Orleans group hold signs as they rally at Mercy Seat Baptist Church for compensation for lives lost and 25,000 homes ruined during a flood. Reverend ... |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | Civil rights leader Ed Nixon, and his wife, seated on the front porch of their home. |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | Ezekiel Bell, his wife, and son Frederick posed outside his house. Bell was the chair of the Community Service Committee which was credited with the succe... |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, (in bow tie) and Rev. J.S. Phifer, congratulate each other after their release from jail. The two men had been imprisoned together... |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | A voter registration panel at a SCEF (Southern Conference Educational Fund) conference. Seated at the table are Hosea L. Williams, W.P. Mitchell of the Tus... |
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