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| Description: | Portrait of Gloria Ray of the Little Rock Nine. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine, reading a book. |
| Date: | 10 15 1956 |
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| Description: | Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ... |
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| Description: | "Little Rock's 'Lady' of the Year", a flyer distributed by racists in Little Rock, illustrated by her 1946 police mug shot and arrest record. The text char... |
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| Description: | Page 2 of a leaflet entitled "The Little Rock Story", apparently intended by its publisher, American Nationalist, to persuade NAACP sympathizers in Little ... |
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| Description: | "Nine Brown Heroes and Heroines" sheet music by A.H. Hamilton, pastor of St. Paul's A.M.E. church in Pueblo, Colorado, with music by Mary Maloney. The musi... |
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| Description: | Civil rights period, Delta Ministry. Myles Horton speaking with an African American man smoking a cigar. |
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| Description: | Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislatur... |
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| Description: | Myles Horton conversing with visitors to Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | African American workers picking cotton in a cotton field. Possibly in Mississippi. |
| Date: | 04 1968 |
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| Description: | Dance interpretation of "Down on Me," a spiritual, as part of the Soul Roots Festival, April 26-27. Silhouettes of dancers with their arms raised. |
| Date: | 04 1968 |
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| Description: | Clown Mathis, dancing to the song "Steal Away" during a performance at the Soul Roots Festival, April 26-27. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 09 02 1957 |
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| Description: | 25th Anniversary event in the Highlander Folk School Library. Pictured are Rosa Parks, Myles Horton, Aubrey Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. among ot... |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rosa Parks at Mrs. Anne Braden's home. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks (center) sitting with a group of friends. Anne Braden is standing upper left and Carl Braden is seated lower right. |
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| Description: | Myles Horton and Rosa Parks, among others. |
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| Description: | A small African American child walking towards a door where a woman is holding her hand out. There is a SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) po... |
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| Description: | A young woman teaching a labor class at Highlander Folk School. |
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