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Father Groppi Speaking in Assembly Chamber

Date: 1969
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...
Photograph

Father Groppi Speaking at Demonstration

Date: 1969
Description: Father Groppi speaking at demonstration in the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber.
Photograph

Johnnie Tillmon, George Wiley and Ethel Kennedy

Date: 1968
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...
Photograph

George Wiley at a Rally

Date: 1972
Description: George Wiley speaking at a rally, wearing a "Welfare Rights Now!" button on his shirt.
Historical Object

Rock with Threatening Note signed "KKK"

Date: 1957
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...
Manuscript

Louisiana Story 1963

Date: 1963
Description: Cover of pamphlet entitled "Louisiana Story 1963," by James Farmer. Produced by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Leviathan

Date: 1970
Description: Cover of "Leviathan," an underground newspaper, featuring a profile of a Muslim with the barrel of a gun in place of his eye. Topics referenced at the top ...
Print

Ku Klux Klan Meeting Program

Date: 10 04 1924
Description: Broadside advertising a meeting and picnic of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) at Miller's Park in Madison, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1982
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...
Photograph

Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1983
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...
Book or Pamphlet

"Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan" Cover

Date: 1926
Description: Cover art of a pamphlet called "Religious and Patriotic Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan" (KKK), author W. C. (Walter Carl) Wright, featuring an image of the Ame...
Print

Ku Klux Klan Souvenir Programme

Date: 1925
Description: Cover design of a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) programme from a State Klonvokation featuring an American flag.
Book or Pamphlet

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Date: 1917
Description: Cover design of a pamphlet of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), "an urgent call to real men from the imperial palace" in Atlanta, Ga., Col. W. J. Simm...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Friendship Club Cookbook

Date: 12 15 1951
Description: Four members of the Friendship Club stand around a table while assembling a cookbook. Left to right, Mrs. Malcom Gordon, Gertrude Taliaferro, Mrs. William ...
Print

Bow Tie Club Membership Card

Date: 1924
Description: Membership card of the Bow Tie Club of Madison, Wisconsin. The card features a drawing of a bow tie with a jewel in the center of the knot and the words "T...
Print

We Shall Overcome... (Selma '65)

Date: 1965
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...
Print

"Black Like Me" Lobby Card

Date: 1964
Description: Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton).
Print

Martin Luther King Broadside

Date: 1963
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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