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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
| Date: | 05 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Student Leadership Conference, May 4-6, including Ella Baker (front row, far left), Carl Braden (second row, hands clasped around knees), Anne Braden (seco... |
| 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: | Front view of a high school for African American students. SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates, the head of the Arkansas NAACP, stands behind seven of the Little Rock Nine, who are seated on a sofa in her living room. They have assembled ... |
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| Description: | A group of Civil Rights activists, including Septima Clark (left), posing in front of the Highlander Library. |
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| Description: | Various views of people, including Rosa Parks and Myles Horton, at an early integration workshop at Highlander School. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the entrance to the Highlander Library, with a CIO student entering the doorway. The poster on the window reads: "CIO says, 'Wipe out Disc... |
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| Description: | Race Relations Institute, Fisk University. Highlander Folk School members participated in Film Center work conducted at the Institute. Extreme right on fi... |
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| Description: | Civil rights group meeting in field at Highlander Lake. Fifth from the left, Charlotte Meacham, American Friends Service Committee, former Highlander stud... |
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| Description: | L.A. Blackman, from Elloree, South Carolina, standing outside of Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 08 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Thomas of the Little Rock Nine is harassed by Central High School students as he waits for transportation after the first day of school. |
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| Description: | Myles Horton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jim Stokely, a writer from Newport, Tennessee. Highlander integration workshop. |
| Date: | 09 04 1957 |
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| Description: | First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Dr. C.H. Paris, Fred Patterson, and Mrs. Rosa Parks attending a Segregation Workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | The training school for stewards sponsored by Local 56 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. At the blackboard is Otis L. Simmons, the local pres... |
| Date: | 06 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Rhoda Smith (left) and Ardele Kingeter of West Senior High School put the final touches to their symbolic mural of the Brotherhood of Man on the east wall ... |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A group sings freedom songs at the Freedom School Convention during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | "Martin Luther King .... at Communist Training School," a broadside received by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, while civil rights legislation was bei... |
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