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Daisy Bates at Broken Window

Date: 05 29 1958
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...
Photograph

The Bates House with Broken Front Window

Date: 08 1957
Description: The Little Rock home of Daisy and L.C. Bates, showing their front window after a stone had been thrown through the window. Grates have been placed on this ...
Photograph

Violence at Little Rock

Date: 09 28 1957
Description: Violence against African American journalists covering the Little Rock integration story. Here the crowd moves in on Jimmy Hicks (center, wearing a hat), t...
Poster

Support Prison Rebellions Poster

Date: 11 1971
Description: Poster created by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), advocating support of prison rebellions, and the abolishment of alleged racist prison terror. Fe...
Photograph

Face-off between Police and NAACP Members

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

Threatening Note signed "KKK"

Date: 1957
Description: Threatening note written on a matchbook, signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957 with a rock and rag. The...
Photograph

Injured on the School Bus

Date: 1975
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...
Photograph

First Day of Busing

Date: 09 12 1974
Description: View down street towards school buses transporting minority students to South Boston High School. They were escorted by police. Protestors are lined up alo...

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