Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Work
Filter: Year of 1900-1999
Filter: Year of 1960-1969
Filter: Subject of african americans
| Date: | 08 25 1967 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
| Date: | 11 15 1968 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Factory worker driving an International Farmall 656 tractor from the assembly at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
| Date: | 1969 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Midge Miller of Madison talking with an unidentified supporter of Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic Convention. Listening intently to their conversation is... |
| Date: | 1963 |
|---|---|
| Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
| Date: | 1969 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Construction worker at the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
|---|---|
| Description: | James Forman in a SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) office. |
| Date: | 1963 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group of young men, including Thorsten Horton, working on fastening cords to a pole, as part of the North South Smokey Mountain Work Camp. |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org... |
| Date: | 1969 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Cesar Chavez (center) head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, receives a Ghandi commemorative medal from Theodore Mazarello (left) of the Gandhi Cen... |
| Date: | 10 1962 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 783 voting on the contract with the Swift Company. |
| Date: | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march. |
| Date: | 1962 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 50 at a ceremony marking the closure of the Swift & Company plant in Milwaukee. The local was o... |
| Date: | 1960 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Donald Hankins (third from the right), president of United Packinghouse Workers Local 569, hands a $500 check for an NAACP life membership to Arthur Johnso... |
| Date: | 08 1965 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The bargaining team for a newly-recognized United Packinghouse Workers local at the Agar Packing Company talk over strategy for their first contract talks ... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
|---|---|
| Description: | John McFerren, a leader of the civil rights movement in Somerville, working on the construction of a new building for the organization. |
| Date: | 1962 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 1962 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:
