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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: | 1939 |
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Description: | Parishioners gather at the entrance outside New Fellowship Church of God In Christ at North Eighth Street. |
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Description: | Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 05 15 1941 |
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Description: | Three African American field artillery soldiers crossing a creek on a TD-18 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and 155 mm gun. The soldiers were from Bat... |
Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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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... |
Date: | 08 12 1924 |
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Description: | Crew of African American workmen paving a city street behind an International heavy-duty truck. |
Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | African American farmer pulling a trailer with a Farmall Cub tractor on McQueen Smith Farms. The trailer is loaded with large sacks, and a child is sitting... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | A winter scene with excited children on a toboggan. |
Date: | 10 04 1963 |
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Description: | A man surveys the damage to his car, and the aged tree that toppled onto it. |
Date: | 02 21 1874 |
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Description: | African American boatmen run a rapids in a small river boat. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
Date: | 03 08 1915 |
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Description: | View of a prisoner, who has a wooden leg, hauling "lighter" wood from the pine woods and Turpentine Orchard to camp with an ox-drawn wagon. Original captio... |
Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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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. |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | African American woman tending to her plot in the McCormick Works' garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harves... |
Date: | 04 10 1935 |
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Description: | African American field worker levels the ground with a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor and a rotary scraper in preparation for planting a new crop of celery... |
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