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| Online access to Wisconsin's heritage in sound |
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| Listen to stories and sounds of Wisconsin's past, including oral histories, radio programs, advertising, political speeches, and more. |
| Examine the oral history and migration experiences of Rubie Bond, an African-American resident of Beloit featured on Wisconsin Public Television |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A group of African Americans gathered at a picnic table for an outdoor church picnic. |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl pose together as they take their bottles of milk at school. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Five foundry workers at Fairbanks, Morse & Company, taking a break just outside the door of the building. Workers names: Solomon Deberry, Curtis Barber, tw... |
| World War II and it Effect on Blacks |
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| Discover the effects World War II had on Blacks in Wisconsin. |
| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
| Read about the most famous actions of freedom seekers along Wisconsin's Underground Railroad. Includes links to primary sources. |
| Date: | 05 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Frances Reneau with her son Thomas on her lap seated on a lawn on a residential street. Mrs. Reneau wears a corsage on her lapel and the toddler, Thomas, h... |
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| Description: | Rubie and Frank Bond standing together outdoors in front of a building. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Laura White, Josephine Vance and Rubie (White) Bond posing together outdoors. |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Two African American men are attaching buttons to a display on the hood of a car in a parking lot outside the Donald Trump rally. T-shirts and hats bearing... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Nine Secret Service agents and police, all men, are standing around the doors at the entrance to the Janesville Conference Center which is hosting the Dona... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | A large group of people gathering outdoors at the Donald Trump rally. Luke McGowan-Arnold is playing his guitar, (with a harmonica and American flag attach... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Three young African American women posing outdoors with their handmade protest signs, each one wearing a white rose in their hair. The signs read, from lef... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | A group of protesters are holding signs while standing behind a stone barricade outside the Donald Trump rally. A few of the signs make reference to Trumps... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Three women and one man are holding up a large banner, only a portion of which can be read: "ionaires." They are also holding their own signs, as do many i... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Standing in the foreground in front of a fence are two people with cameras filming an African American man talking to a group of people who are Trump suppo... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask is holding up a sign which reads: "Our Grandparents didn't Kill fascist's [sic] just so that we can elect one!" He is stand... |
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