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School Desegregation Pickets

Date: 1964
Description: A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation.
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Daisy Bates at Woolworth's Boycott

Date: 1962
Description: Daisy Bates and others at Woolworth's boycott.
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Father Groppi Singing with Activists

Date: 1968
Description: Father James Groppi with young civil rights activists. They have all joined hands and are singing.
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CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
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Anti-Civil Rights Protester

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Description: American Nazi protesting the rights of African Americans.
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College Teacher Protest

Date: 12 04 1970
Description: Elevated view of college teachers, non-tenured, at UW-Parkside protesting the decision to not renew their contracts.
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Car Full of Suffragists

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Description: Members of the Political Equality League in an early Ford automobile draped with bunting reading "Votes for Women." In the front seat is Mrs. B.C. Gudden. ...
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United Nations Protest

Date: 10 1956
Description: Glenn Turner is holding the United Nations flag, and his wife is carrying the flag of the state of Wisconsin. A supporter is holding the American flag. One...
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Johnnie Tillmon, George Wiley and Ethel Kennedy

Date: 1968
Description: Johnnie Tillmon addressing a Mother's Day March on Washington, ca. 1968 or 1969. George Wiley is sitting directly behind her, on the left. Ethel Kennedy is...
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Picketing Gimbel's

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store.
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Postal Employees Demand Higher Wages

Date: 08 1919
Description: View down long line of workers from the United States Postal Service demonstrating for an increase in salary to meet war-time cost of living increases.
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My Future Was. . . Farming

Date: 01 28 1985
Description: Farm family youth demonstrates to call awareness to the economic problems facing the family farm.
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Picketers Protesting Economic Exploitation

Date: 11 18 1966
Description: Two men carry signs to protest exploitation of tenants who are members of Local 404 by their landlord who is manager of College Barber Shop.
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Suffragists Picketing on Fifth Avenue

Date: 1920
Description: Protesters demonstrating for women's rights parade up and down Fifth Avenue. They had previously been arrested at the White House.
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Peace Through Victory

Date: 01 19 1968
Description: Protesters, members of the Milwaukee Americans for Freedom, demonstrate against presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and in favor of the Vietnam war.
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Anti-Nuclear Protest

Date: 02 25 1988
Description: A man hands out information while holding a sign reading "Stop All Nuclear Testing" in front of the Reuss Federal Building.
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Confederacy of Dunces

Date: 10 12 1984
Description: Men wearing Ronald Reagan masks and dunce caps make their way through a crowd.
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Civil Rights Demonstration

Date: 10 1965
Description: Demonstration at the Greyhound Bus station, showing a woman holding a sign that reads: "Sit Down Like Human Beings, Up Front." SNCC Arkansas Project.
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I'm A Farmer's Wife

Date: 04 06 1973
Description: Women picketing at a shopping center, urging others to boycott meat. One woman is wearing a sign on her back that reads: "I'm a farmer's wife."
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Russell Jones with Group of Journalists

Date: 11 1956
Description: Russell Jones, facing camera wearing a light trench coat, standing with a group of journalists on a street corner during the fighting in Budapest, Hungary....

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