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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | African-American school band assembled in a lecture hall at the Piney Woods Country Life School with Agricultural Extension Department workers and charts i... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | African American man harvesting cotton with an experimental McCormick-Deering 2-row cotton picker mounted on a Farmall Regular tractor. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an African American prisoner hauling goods with a horse-drawn wagon. Original caption reads: "Baled alfalfa, bacon, flour and grain which... |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | African American man operating an experimental two-row cotton picker in a field. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Delta Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership, lined up outdoors for a group portrait. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man driving a Weber wagon with two mules sitting in front of a building in front of the Komp Machine Works. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A man operates an International T-40 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). Original caption reads: "International T-40 TracTracTor equipped with bullgrader and us... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men use an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) to skid logs in cypress timber. Original caption reads: "F.J. Jacks of Tunica, Mississippi,... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men load logs from a clearing onto the bed of an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special truck owned by the Johnson-Manville Corporation. The truck had a 1... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A worker operates a machine powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Rosedale Gin. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers tend machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Wilmot Gin Company. |
| Date: | 12 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers tend machines inside the Long Short Gin. The machinery was powered by an International PD-80 power unit. |
| Date: | 09 1955 |
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| Description: | Rev. Moses Wright and his son Simon outside the Sumner courthouse where two white men were on trial for the murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till (Wright's nep... |
| Date: | 09 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Willie Reed, an 18-year-old "surprise" witness who bravely testified during the murder trial of 14-year-old Emmett Till, correctly identifying the white de... |
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