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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber protesting welfare cuts. Father Groppi is seated on the lef... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Father Groppi speaking at demonstration in the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Johnnie Tillmon addressing a Mother's Day March on Washington, ca. 1968 or 1969. George Wiley is sitting directly behind her, on the left. Ethel Kennedy is... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | George Wiley speaking at a rally, wearing a "Welfare Rights Now!" button on his shirt. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Threatening note signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) with rock and rag that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957. The note reads: "The next wil... |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates speaking at the podium at a breakfast given in her honor at the Sheraton Plaza. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Cover of pamphlet entitled "Louisiana Story 1963," by James Farmer. Produced by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) bumper sticker reading, "One man, one vote." |
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| Description: | "Little Rock's 'Lady' of the Year", a flyer distributed by racists in Little Rock, illustrated by her 1946 police mug shot and arrest record. The text char... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 02 08 1879 |
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| Description: | A cartoon entitled: "The Latest Illustration of Our Humane Indian Policy" depicting an imprisoned, injured Native American man who has been served "boiled ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing the Civil Rights March on Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The Christmas star shines overhead and has glitter on it. The card has a red border... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A telegram to President John F. Kennedy from James Farmer, the National Director of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). The message reads, "Continued armed... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | A printed appeal "to MARCH on WASHINGTON, Wednesday August 28, 1963." Some of the text reads "American faces a crisis...Millions of Negroes are denied free... |
| Date: | 08 07 1964 |
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| Description: | Alabama A and M College professor Dorothea Smith speaking at a press conference. She was one of 51 mathematics teachers from 40 predominantly Negro college... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A flyer advertising the Crusade for Citizenship on February 12, 1958. An illustration shows men and women voting. Text reads, in part: "20 cities will hold... |
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