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Bomb Explodes at Haymarket Square Rally

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: A photograph of a painting depicting the bomb exploding at police as they approach the wagon to tell the crowd to disperse from Haymarket Square. Shrapnel ...
Poster

Dow Riot Protest Poster

Date: 10 1967
Description: Poster with a large image of the Dow Riot (Oct. 18, 1967) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, showing riot police beating protesters. Includes t...
Photograph

Face-off between Police and NAACP Members

Date: 
Description: The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration.
Print

John Bull's Sympathy

Date: 1860
Description: A slave is being whipped by a slave owner as he kneels and prays next to a bale of cotton labeled "COTTON" and "CSA." John Bull sits on the bale facing awa...
Photograph

FLN Members Take Cover

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front lying down on the ground as another member grabs a rifle and looks out of the tent. He has his hand pro...
Photograph

FLN Captures Traitors

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front member captures an Algerian traitor who helped the French. The FLN member, wearing grass on his hat and shirt as camoufl...
Photograph

Red Crescent Worker Bandaging Chest

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker bandages a National Liberation Front member's chest outdoors. He wears a Red Crescent arm band to id...
Photograph

FLN Member "Attacking"

Date: 08 1957
Description: A National Liberation Front member wearing fatigues is pretending to attack Dickey Chapelle in the Algerian Desert. He is running and holding his bayonet i...
Photograph

FLN Member Jumping with Knife

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front poses as 'attacking' Dickey Chapelle from a boulder in the desert. He is jumping off a boulder with a l...
Photograph

FLN Members with NATO Bomb

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members show an unexploded bomb to Dickey Chapelle, proving NATO's involvement in the war. The men are crouched around t...
Photograph

Frame 07: Destroyed Church

Date: 09 20 1964
Description: A man stands inside the ruins of a church building. When printed in the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund Report, vol. II, no. 1, this photograph...
Poster

I Will Never Turn Back

Date: 1964
Description: A poster with the headline, "I Will Never Turn Back," a quote from a young woman in Mississippi for the Freedom Summer Project in a letter to her mother. B...
Poster

These Are My Last Words...

Date: 09 1973
Description: Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Page From The Student Voice

Date: 08 05 1964
Description: Page 4 of The Student Voice featuring the title "Shootings, Beatings, Bombings and Burnings," and a photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer.
Photograph

She Digs In

Date: 10 11 1967
Description: Caption on reverse of wire photo: "She Digs In--An unidentified anti-war protester with designs painted on her face and carrying sign, "Sifting and Winnowi...
Photograph

Young Woman Pepper Sprayed

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A fifteen-year-old girl is being helped through the crowd, escorted by a woman and two Rock County police officers. Her face and part of her clothing is co...
Photograph

Anti-Police Violence Protest

Date: 1975
Description: Protestors marching in protest of police violence.

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