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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...
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Eleanor Roosevelt Speaks for SCEF

Date: 05 26 1959
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...
Poster

Boycott Polaroid

Date: 12 29 1970
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of Polaroid cameras due to the company's supposed involvement in South Africa's apartheid regime. A list of grievances and de...
Postcard

Free Huey Newton!

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Description: The front design of a postcard with the caption "Free Huey Newton!" showing an iconic image of Newton positioned in a drawing that depicts him inside the m...
Print

Humane Indian Policy Cartoon

Date: 02 08 1879
Description: A cartoon entitled: "The Latest Illustration of Our Humane Indian Policy" depicting an imprisoned, injured Native American man who has been served "boiled ...
Photograph

Negotiations at Gresham

Date: 01 18 1975
Description: Negotiations between leaders of the Menominee Warrior Society and the American Indian Movement with General Hugh Simonson (in the Army jacket) of the Wisco...
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Negotiations at Gresham

Date: 1975
Description: Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb...
Photograph

NAACP March with Police Escort

Date: 1967
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 ...
Postcard

Thompson Tent Show

Date: 1907
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...
Photograph

No Justice, No Spending

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: View towards a man walking alone down the middle of the closed street outside of the Republican presidential debate at the Milwaukee Theater. The man is ho...
Photograph

Fight for $15 Protester

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A young African American man is standing in the middle of a crowd speaking through a megaphone. Two camera operators are filming him as he is speaking. He ...
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Joe Davis Speaking to a Crowd of Protesters

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Joe Davis, Milwaukee's 2nd district Alderman, speaking through a megaphone to a crowd of protesters outside the Republican presidential debate. He is stand...
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Vietnam Veteran Holding Sign Opposing Racism

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: Outdoor view of the Janesville Donald Trump rally. A Vietnam veteran is holding up a sign reading: "Racism is Ugly, Racism is Bad." A younger man is standi...

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