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| Date: | 06 05 1952 |
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| Description: | At his first press conference as an announced candidate for the Presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower meets the press in a theatre. He took questions from over... |
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| Description: | Four members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are: Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, and Dalton Tr... |
| Date: | 12 16 1962 |
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| Description: | A village near Cuautla, Mexico, where the Highlander-sponsored, Inter-American Educational Adults seminar was held, invited participants to a committee mee... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 07 06 1937 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for the dam on the St. Croix River that is now part of the Gordon Dam County Park. Construction on this dam was begun as a WPA project... |
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| Description: | Civil rights activist Anne Braden speaking to a rally. Behind her is the Rev. Louis Coleman, also a local activist. |
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| Description: | Civil rights activist Anne Braden speaking to a rally that was called by the National Anti-Klan Network, an organization of which she was a founder. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Rev. C.T. Vivian, a nationally prominent civil rights leader. Although unidentified, it is thought that he is speaking at an event sponsored by the Nation... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
| Date: | 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating Jenness and Pulley as Socialist party candidates for the White House, in the 1972 presidential elections. Features photograph of former S... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Orson Welles on podium in front of giant 'Kane' backdrop, in scene still for "Citizen Kane". |
| Date: | 03 04 1865 |
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| Description: | Large crowd gathered for Lincoln's second inauguration. |
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| Description: | Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy speaks from a stage. |
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| Description: | William Proxmire gives a speech wearing a striped suit and raising his fist. |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire giving a speech in front of several microphones. |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire gives a speech in front of many microphones, wearing eyeglasses. |
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