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| Description: | Portrait of Velma Bell Hamilton, born 1910. Born in Beloit, Mrs. Hamilton served as a member of the first Governor's Commission on Human Rights. In 1943 sh... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Julius Lester playing an acoustic guitar outdoors at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Music being played at a Highlander Folk School student workshop. John Lewis in back, extreme left; James Bevel, kneeling, left (in front of John); Candie A... |
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| Description: | Bernice Robinson, Esau Jenkins, and Lewis Sinclair listening to an audio recording at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Dr. C.H. Paris, Fred Patterson, and Mrs. Rosa Parks attending a Segregation Workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Thorsten and Myles Horton, sitting on left, watching Rosa Parks, standing and speaking at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | An African American ore miner, holding a large tool and smoking a cigarette. A pin that reads, "Mine-Mill-CIO" is attached to his hardhat. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a Loyal Temperance League organization largely comprised of African American women and children. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| 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. |
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| Description: | Civil Rights activist, Septima Clark, at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ... |
| Date: | 03 1972 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster supporting Shirley Chisholm, an African American woman who was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from ... |
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| Description: | Cartoon of Jim Crow in the U.S. zone of postwar Germany, with a soldier goose stepping in the foreground, and Hitler and Stalin in the background. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a well-dressed, African-American man, identified as H.F. "Frank" Lyons. He is wearing a suit jacket, vest, and necktie. Lyons was the ... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of an unidentified African-American man with curly hair and a moustache. He is wearing a suit jacket and vest. |
| Date: | 10 26 1975 |
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| Description: | Seated at a table from left to right are: Hubert Humphrey, Gaylord Nelson, Shirley Chisholm, and Robert Cornell. David Obey and Alvin Baldus are in the bac... |
| Date: | 02 18 2008 |
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| Description: | Michelle Obama, wife of politician Barack Obama, greeting Wisconsin State Representative Jennifer Shilling at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. |
| Date: | 05 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for "an evening of faith & soul" with Andraé Crouch and the Disciples, billed as America's Number One Soul Gospel Group. Concert took pl... |
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