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| Date: | 02 15 1961 |
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| Description: | The Dane County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Brotherhood Week display, including books, recordings and other material... |
| Date: | 01 11 1982 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of E. Gordon Young, an attorney and civil rights activist who became the state's first black assistant attorney general in 1965. At... |
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| Description: | Men and women walking along a sidewalk carrying Fair Housing signs. The bottom of one sign reads: "NAACP Youth Council." |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Group of people around a woman wearing sunglasses and a straw hat. A few of the people behind her are wearing NAACP shirts. |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips (left) is marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council. In the background is the Lincoln Memorial. Other unidentified youth council members... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips at a Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council meeting. Vel is standing with a group of people on a table or stage. Below her is Father James Groppi. Vel ... |
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| Description: | Rear view of Vel Phillips sitting on a pier on a lake. She is wearing a shirt that says "Commando" on the back. Two unidentified women are sitting next to ... |
| Date: | 11 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council rally. She is wearing the organization's sweatshirt. Other unidentified people are marching wi... |
| Date: | 12 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over people sitting at tables in front of the head table, at the NAACP Milwaukee Branch's 1958 Annual Dinner. Roy Wilkins, seated in the midd... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | The NAACP Milwaukee Branch's Freedom Fund Dinner Committee. The Freedom Fund Dinner is an annual NAACP fundraising event and awards ceremony for the organi... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing a baseball glove, hat and a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commando NAACP Youth Council" pitching a baseball. In the background sta... |
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| Description: | View from behind batter and umpire of Vel Phillips pitching a baseball. She is wearing a Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt. There are three unidenti... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throwing a baseball. Two unidentified children stand in the field behind Vel. ... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, handing a baseball to an unidentified young man wearing a jacket. Two unidenti... |
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| Description: | View from behind catcher towards Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throwing a pitch to the catcher, who is stand... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throws a pitch. A batter, catcher, and umpire are in the foreground. Two unide... |
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| Description: | View from behind the catcher towards Vel Phillips throwing a baseball pitch. She is wearing a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Counci... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips being carried on the shoulders of Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council members. On the right is Father James Groppi speaking into a microphone on a p... |
| Date: | 09 30 1966 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee's NAACP Youth Council Commandoes sit in a car outside the home of Police Chief Harold Brier at 3139 S. 50th Street. |
| Date: | 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Flyer announcing a special meeting of the Youth Council of the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Tuesda... |
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