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| Date: | 12 05 1947 |
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| Description: | George Weaver, secretary of the national CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, appearing at the Wisconsin State CIO convention. |
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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: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia. |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Rev. Joseph Lowery, minister, civil rights leader, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), speaking to a conference sponsored... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Gwen Patton reporting on the Southern Rainbow Education Project to a conference called by the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC). |
| Date: | 09 1993 |
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| Description: | Scott Douglas and Connie Tucker (right), leaders of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC), at an unidentified event. |
| Date: | 10 1991 |
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| 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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| Description: | Modjeska Simpkins (center) one of the early leaders of the NAACP at an unidentified meeting of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC). Among the other SO... |
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| Description: | Anne Braden (center) at an unidentified meeting of the SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) leadership. |
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| Description: | Anne Braden and Rev. Ben Chavis at an SOC (Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Human Welfare) event. Braden and Chavis were founding members a... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | SNCC leader Bob Moses. Although this image is not fully captioned, it is believed to be the voter registration office in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Samuel Banks, Wisconsin Executive Messenger and appointed by Governor Phillipp, President of the committee representing Wisc... |
| Date: | 06 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Six committee members of the Alpha Omega Phi women's organization dedicated to community social service plan an upcoming party. Seated in front, left to ri... |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Posed group shot of the United Steelworkers of America District 32 Convention Resolutions Committee. The men wear suits and are all sitting or standing aro... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin leans over to confer with Congressman Tim Wirth during a meeting of the House Budget Committee. Obey's aide Scott Lill... |
| Date: | 01 23 1956 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the annual dance committee for the Y-Teen Interclub Council. Seated left to right: Kay Calcagno, YWCA teen age director; Colen... |
| Date: | 10 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the De Porres Guild make preparations for the upcoming bazaar. Proceeds will benefit the Blessed Martin Guild which conducts social, recreationa... |
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| Description: | James Forman, noted civil rights activist, smoking a cigarette. Forman was known for his work in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and as th... |
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