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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Two protesters hold a banner in Central Park that reads, "Smash Racist Courts! Free the Panther 21, sds." Park benches are stacked on top of each other in ... |
| Date: | 07 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rebecca Chalmers Barton, Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, seated at her desk. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene of people in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, being addressed by two German soldiers. The scene was witnessed by American journalist A... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had... |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | A street in the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, Poland. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) sitting at a table with two uniden... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Allied Artists film "Shock Corridor," featuring James Best (playing Stuart), Peter Breck (playing Johnny Barrett), and Hari Rhodes (pl... |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a sidewalk. In the background are several commercial and residential buildings. |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a road. In the background are residential buildings. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Thompson Tent Show. A tent, a tall wagon and a truck that runs the generator are set up in a field or park with houses and tre... |
| Date: | 09 30 1966 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee's NAACP Youth Council Commandoes sit in a car outside the home of Police Chief Harold Brier at 3139 S. 50th Street. |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | A young man is standing outdoors wearing a UW Badgers sweater, a Kansas City Chiefs cap, and sunglasses and is holding up two signs. The one on the right r... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn banner hanging from the bay window of a home. The banner features a cartoon, rear view, of a boy holding an American flag, with his arm around a... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A man, sitting on porch steps, is holding up a sign that reads: "K.K.K. + S.B + H.P." (Ku Klux Klan plus South Boston plus Hyde Park.) Standing on the porc... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two students are standing behind a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two students stand next to a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray painte... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Racist graffiti spray painted on the wall of a South Boston housing project. It reads: "We HATE Niggers." This image was captured during the unrest followi... |
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