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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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Group Portrait of African Americans in front of Building

Date: 02 17 1915
Description: Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house.
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Alabama Textile Workers Conference

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Description: Image caption reads: "Textile workers conference, Central Alabama, 1939-seated back row Weatherspoon, next Zilphia Horton, next Alabama director, behind po...
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United Rubber Workers Conference

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Description: Rubber workers Educational Conference. Fifth from left in front row, Zilphia Horton, sixth from left is Mr. Lewis, the Educational Director for the Rubber ...
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Robert Zellner and Michael Forbes

Date: 03 2002
Description: Congressman Michael Forbes, an unidentified woman, and Robert Zellner pose in front of the Martin Luther King, Jr. monument in front of the Brown Chapel Ba...
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Alabama Crop Diversification Campaign Speakers

Date: 02 14 1915
Description: A group of speakers, six men and two women, from the Alabama Crop Diversification Campaign, stand outside a building, probably a train station, marked with...
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Diversified Farming Speakers

Date: 02 19 1915
Description: Speakers from the diversified farming program stand in front of a brick building near an awning. Each person wears a winter coat and brimmed hat, and there...
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North Alabama Baptist Academy

Date: 1915
Description: View across yard of a group of African American students from the North Alabama Baptist Academy gathered on the building's front steps for an outdoor group...
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Montgomery State Normal School

Date: 03 03 1915
Description: A large group of African American children stand with a sign reading: "Diversification of Livestock in Alabama" in front of the Montgomery State Normal Sch...
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Group at Alabama Barbecue Pit

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ...
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Gillespie Family at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 06 1930
Description: Group portrait of Josh Gillespie sitting with his wife and children on the steps of a farmhouse. Gillespie was foreman at International Harvester's Montgom...
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School Girls Gathered Outdoors

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: Group of school girls sitting outdoors in the grass. Original caption reads, in part, "this group of young ladies at La Wier school near Tallidega, Ala. we...
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Alabama Home

Date: 05 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger and E.S. Goetsch visiting a home in Shelby County, Alabama. The family, two women, two children, and a baby, are posing in front of the h...
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Outdoor Portrait of the Paul C. Goetsch Family

Date: 05 1902
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Paul C. Goetsch, his wife, and two children, Dorothy and Russel. They are sitting on the lawn in a patch of clover.
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Paul C. Goetsch Home

Date: 05 1902
Description: Paul C. Goetsch and family posing in front of their home. Mrs. Paul C. Goetsch and Russel Goetsch are sitting on the steps of the front porch. Paul is hold...
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Myles Horton and Metz Rollins at Selma March

Date: 1965
Description: Several people are standing together, including Highlander Research and Education Center founder Myles Horton, and Presbyterian minister Rev. Joseph Metz R...

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