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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop... |
| Date: | 04 06 1969 |
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| Description: | Children walking out of church after the Easter Sunday service at St. James United Methodist Church at 1114 West Brown Street. |
| Date: | 09 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
| Date: | 09 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates standing in the doorway of the weekly Arkansas State Press, the newspaper founded by Mrs. Bates and her husband, L.C. Bates. As a result... |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates outside her home with four of the Little Rock Nine. The students are Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Melba Pattillo, and Thelma Mothershed. |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a concert by Ike and Tina Turner at the Dane County Coliseum, in Madison, Wisconsin, June 26th, 1971. Features a picture of Tina Tur... |
| Date: | 04 11 1969 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lloyd Knox demonstrating the technique of making spoon bread. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto... |
| Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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| Description: | Full-length group portrait of a bride and her mother and father walking towards the center aisle of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House as the ceremo... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A line of predominantly African-American people likely outside of the Leflore County Courthouse, probably at a voter registration drive. Caucasian law enfo... |
| Date: | 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips is embracing Angie Brooks, former United Nations representative to Liberia. Ms. Brooks is wearing a fur coat, turban and earrings. Both women ... |
| Date: | 06 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Modern tintype, full length, formal portrait, of Angela R. Davis, Development Officer, Wisconsin Historical Foundation. She is seated in a chair with her a... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is seated with his family. His ... |
| Date: | 12 1981 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips sitting with her husband W. Dale Phillips, who is holding a cup that says "Holiday Folk Fair." This image is affixed to a holiday card Vel and... |
| Date: | 09 04 1967 |
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| Description: | A family posing together indoors; the father is bouncing a young girl standing on his knees. Caption reads: "Mrs. Alan S. Smith and her two sons watched as... |
| Date: | 11 21 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman is carving a turkey, which is on a table full of many dishes. Several children are sitting and looking on from behind their desks. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 08 25 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman is holding hands with two young women, with several young men and women looking on from behind them. Caption reads: "Walk slowly," were the instruc... |
| Date: | 03 30 1979 |
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| Description: | Two women in costumes posing and stretching out their arms towards the camera. Caption reads: "Phyllis Bickham (left) and Amber Kelly will alternate in the... |
| Date: | 07 24 1983 |
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| Description: | Close-up of two people holding hands, one white and one black. Caption reads: "Black-white couples say that racial difference is no big deal for them, but ... |
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