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| Date: | 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Demonstration at the Greyhound Bus station, showing a woman holding a sign that reads: "Sit Down Like Human Beings, Up Front." SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Back view of a black high school showing damage on a wall. SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior of building showing door with the sign "Rooms for rent. Colored only". SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Barbee posing in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 05 29 1958 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957, looking throu... |
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| Description: | A group of Civil Rights activists, including Septima Clark (left), posing in front of the Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting Justice holding bodies on her scale, one white and six black. The caption includes the phrase: "Five More Wanted." |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Tom Hayden talking to two African-American women on house steps. The woman in the center is Terry Jefferson (as identified by Hayden). |
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| Description: | L.A. Blackman, from Elloree, South Carolina, standing outside of Highlander Library. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A group of African Americans in the courtroom at the Emmett Till murder trial. The 14-year-old Till, who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago, was murdere... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting fair hiring practices. Produced by the National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 718 Jackson Place, Washington 6, D.C. Prepared by... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Linda Crump — girl on left, a student who was hit by a rock in her bus on the way out of S. Boston." Two girls and a young... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Students from Columbia Point waiting to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are standing in groups, talking. School buses are parked... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Students and three adults on standing on the steps at an entrance to South Boston High School. |
| Date: | 01 1950 |
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| Description: | 22 people posing together in front of the White House. Caption reads: "CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS CALL ON PRESIDENT: Pictured on White House grounds is the deleg... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Front page of Connections. Features a photograph of a group of people and two dogs walking down State Street, with the Wisconsin State Capitol in th... |
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