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Agricultural Extension Lecture to Schoolchildren

Date: 02 1915
Description: International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department employee J.E. Waggoner delivers a lecture to children and farmers assembled at Providence School....
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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Farmers Hauling Goods in Columbus Wagon

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Description: Two farmers standing in the bed of a wooden Columbus wagon loaded with groceries and other goods. The original caption reads: "One of the reasons why Alaba...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. During Bus Ride

Date: 12 21 1956
Description: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding a bus with white Methodist minister Glenn Smiley during the Montgomery bus integration struggle. The man seated in fro...
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Men Sitting on Pier

Date: 1915
Description: Two men sit on a pier with a beach and several homes in the background.
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Dombrowski Leaves Jail

Date: 1948
Description: James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol...
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Birmingham Movement Leaders

Date: 04 1962
Description: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, (in bow tie) and Rev. J.S. Phifer, congratulate each other after their release from jail. The two men had been imprisoned together...
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4-Row Corn Planter Demonstration

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: A group of men, women, and children are standing in a field at an International Harvester Company farm to watch a 4-row corn planter demonstration.
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Basketball Team in Alabama

Date: 02 18 1915
Description: School basketball team seated outside school with team basketball. Original caption reads, "Even though most of the country schools of Alabama have no luxu...
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Crowd with Horse

Date: 1920
Description: A man and boy holding the reins of a horse while a group of men and boys are looking on. Commercial buildings are in the background.
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Man Smoothing Dirt Road

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on a wooden grader while driving two mules along a dirt road. Beside the road behind him are cows in a fenced-in f...
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Wood Lumber Company Delivery Truck

Date: 11 30 1937
Description: Mr. Allan K. Wood stands beside an International C-300 truck owned by Wood Lumber Company. Piles of lumber are stacked in the background, and there is a ma...
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Group of People Outdoors

Date: 1966
Description: A large group of people gathered outdoors on a lawn at a primary election for the LCFO (Lowndes County Freedom Organization). There are buildings in the ba...
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Group of People Outdoors

Date: 1966
Description: A large group of people gathered outdoors on a lawn at a primary election for the LCFO (Lowndes County Freedom Organization). There are buildings in the ba...
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Women Seated at Table

Date: 1966
Description: Two women are outdoors seated at a table in front of a building, surrounded by several people. One of the women is holding a document in her hands, showing...
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Group Being Filmed

Date: 1966
Description: A group of African-American men and women, probably voter registration volunteers, stand in a line outdoors in front of a building at a primary election fo...
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Group with Film Camera

Date: 1966
Description: Several people, probably voter registration volunteers, stand outdoors in front of a building near tables and chairs at a primary election for the LCFO (Lo...
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Group of People Posing Outdoors

Date: 1966
Description: Several people, probably voter registration volunteers, stand outdoors next in front of a building near tables and chairs. They are taking part in a prima...
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Abaché and Kazoola

Date: 1914
Description: An African American woman and man pose together outdoors. Abaché, also known as Clara Turner, and Kazoola, also known as Cudjoe Lewis, were formerly enslav...
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Elbert Blow Farmhouse

Date: 1915
Description: Farmhouse of the Elbert Blow family with a Ford roadster.

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