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| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated at his desk in the foreground, signs a bill into law ending segregation in the Wisconsin National Guard because of race, c... |
| Date: | 01 17 1961 |
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| Description: | Portion of Wisconsin Senate Bill 16, S regarding Governor's Commission on Human Rights. |
| Date: | 04 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Alabama governor George Wallace shaking hands with members of the Madison Exchange club. They invited Wallace to give a speech at the Cuba Club restaurant ... |
| Date: | 04 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Three people of the 18 protestors outside of the Cuba Club restaurant. A large protest sign states, "Wallace: Blood is on your hands." The protestors were... |
| Date: | 04 29 1965 |
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| Description: | An Assembly bill to establish a full-time Equal Opportunity Commission got 5 1/2 hours of pro and con testimony at a public hearing before the Assembly Jud... |
| Date: | 04 27 1964 |
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| Description: | Twenty-seven members of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) are linking arms and singing "We Shall Overcome" in the balcony of the Wisconsin Assembly Ch... |
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