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: | 1964 |
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Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
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: | 09 29 1965 |
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Description: | Group of people at the Forrest City court hearing. Two central people are identified as "Joanna" and "Ben." SNCC Arkansas Project. |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Group of protesters march in front of a Howard Johnson's restaurant holding signs. One says "Segregation OUT!! Integration IN!! CORE - NAACP". |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | Daisy Bates shakes hands with President Eisenhower at the Summit Conference. |
Date: | 12 21 1956 |
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Description: | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding a bus with white Methodist minister Glenn Smiley during the Montgomery bus integration struggle. The man seated in fro... |
Date: | 01 20 1944 |
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Description: | Arthur W. Friede, President of Gentile League, an organization "to give Gentiles equal rights with Jews." The Wisconsin State Journal investigated t... |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Man in a hat and long coat holding a sign opposing desegregation in schools. Possibly in Milwaukee. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Marchers carrying signs bearing the names of Milwaukee suburbs during a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) march for fair housing in Milwaukee. They are pa... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Shell labor rally at an unknown location. Signs include the sayings, "Equal Pay for Women," "Negro and White, Unite and Fight," and "Let the Packers Pay O... |
Date: | 11 01 1879 |
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Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler of South Carolina in fine clothing standing next to an African American who is on his knees, surrounded by small bu... |
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Description: | Myles Horton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jim Stokely, a writer from Newport, Tennessee. Highlander integration workshop. |
Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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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... |
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: | 10 15 1956 |
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Description: | Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ... |
Date: | 09 1993 |
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Description: | Scott Douglas and Connie Tucker (right), leaders of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC), at an unidentified event. |
Date: | 02 02 1980 |
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Description: | Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o... |
Date: | 05 26 1959 |
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Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particul... |
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