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| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Father Groppi is seated in the back of a police wagon with police officer after being arrested in front of his parish for the second night in a row. |
| Date: | 12 05 1924 |
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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Comic strip showing man bombing a house because it is being sold to an African-American man. A police officer arrests the seller of the home for inciting t... |
| Date: | 06 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Police officer inspecting the damage to the home of Andrew Wade and his family after it was bombed. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | An unidentified member of the Wisconsin State Patrol points his revolver at several Native Americans at a vehicle checkpoint near Gresham. The State Patrol... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | African-Americans approach the courthouse in order to vote. The original caption reads: "Negro citizens attempt to cast ballots in Greenwood, August 1963. ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre... |
| Date: | 09 12 1974 |
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| Description: | View down street towards school buses transporting minority students to South Boston High School. They were escorted by police. Protestors are lined up alo... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Donna Connolly, wearing sunglasses, is standing on the sidewalk in South Boston with some of her children. She was one of the leaders of the school boycott... |
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