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Civil Rights Demonstration

Date: 10 1965
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.
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Gould High School

Date: 1965
Description: Back view of a black high school showing damage on a wall. SNCC Arkansas Project.
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Freedom House

Date: 1965
Description: Exterior view of the Freedom House, which was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sponsored Freedom Center. SNCC Arkansas Project. A child s...
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Rooms For Rent

Date: 1965
Description: Exterior of building showing door with the sign "Rooms for rent. Colored only". SNCC Arkansas Project.
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Lloyd Barbee at Capitol

Date: 08 1964
Description: Lloyd Barbee posing in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Daisy Bates at Broken Window

Date: 05 29 1958
Description: Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957, looking throu...
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Civil Rights Group with Septima Clark

Date: 
Description: A group of Civil Rights activists, including Septima Clark (left), posing in front of the Highlander Library.
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Ku Klux Klan Funeral

Date: 12 05 1924
Description: Klansmen of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing conic masks and white robes gather in front of St. James Lutheran Church, Verona, for the funeral of Herbert C. ...
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Tom Hayden

Date: 1964
Description: Tom Hayden talking to two African-American women on house steps. The woman in the center is Terry Jefferson (as identified by Hayden).
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L.A. Blackman Outside Highlander Library

Date: 
Description: L.A. Blackman, from Elloree, South Carolina, standing outside of Highlander Library.
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The Bates House with Broken Front Window

Date: 08 1957
Description: The Little Rock home of Daisy and L.C. Bates, showing their front window after a stone had been thrown through the window. Grates have been placed on this ...
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Fur Workers Rally

Date: 05 28 1963
Description: Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company.
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Rev. Wright at Emmett Till Murder Trial

Date: 09 1955
Description: Rev. Moses Wright and his son Simon outside the Sumner courthouse where two white men were on trial for the murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till (Wright's nep...
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Colored Entrance at Malco Theater

Date: 1953
Description: Exterior view of the segregated entrance for African-Americans at Malco Theater. There is a fire escape on the side of the building. Several cars are parke...
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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 ...
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Burned Cross

Date: 
Description: A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a sidewalk. In the background are several commercial and residential buildings.
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Protest Rally on Library Mall

Date: 03 03 1960
Description: A crowd of five hundred University of Wisconsin students, some carrying protest signs, attend a rally on Library Mall. They are demonstrating peacefully ag...
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Victim of East St. Louis Riots

Date: 07 04 1917
Description: A group of white men are posing along a pile of cinder blocks. In front of the blocks, and partially obscured by shadows, is the body of a black man. Capti...
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Banner on South Boston Home

Date: 1975
Description: Hand-drawn banner hanging from the bay window of a home. The banner features a cartoon, rear view, of a boy holding an American flag, with his arm around a...
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South Boston

Date: 1975
Description: A woman and a teenage girl are looking out the windows of a building during unrest following court-ordered school desegregation busing.

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