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Daisy Bates at Woolworth's Boycott

Date: 1962
Description: Daisy Bates and others at Woolworth's boycott.
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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SSOC Continuations Committee Meeting

Date: 04 1964
Description: Founding members of the Southern Students Organizing Committee (SSOC) at a committee meeting, discussing ways to organize white students in the South to pr...
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Daisy Bates Standing Behind Little Rock Nine

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Daisy Bates, the head of the Arkansas NAACP, stands behind seven of the Little Rock Nine, who are seated on a sofa in her living room. They have assembled ...
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Civil Rights Group with Septima Clark

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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 Group Portrait

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) of Racine, posed outdoors in the form of a cross and holding a banner.
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Costume Party

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Description: Group of Caucasian individuals dressed up as African Americans, in blackface and eating watermelon.
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Race Relations Institute, Fisk University

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Description: Race Relations Institute, Fisk University. Highlander Folk School members participated in Film Center work conducted at the Institute. Extreme right on fi...
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Andrew Wade and His Family

Date: 05 16 1954
Description: Andrew Wade and his wife and daughter stand in front of their house. Their front windows have been damaged by rocks and rifle shots.
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Robert Zellner with SNCC Advocates

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Description: Robert Zellner with people involved in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. From left to right are Larry Rubin, Matthew Jones, Robert Zellner, M...
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Minstrel Show Players

Date: 02 07 1950
Description: Nine women, all but two in blackface and all dressed in drag for a minstrel show, presented by a St. Bernard's Catholic Church Christian Mothers group. Sea...
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Union Leaders in Selma

Date: 03 1965
Description: Ralph Helstein (second from the left), the president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with other union leaders on the first day of the civil ...
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Friendship Club Cook Book

Date: 12 10 1951
Description: Portrait of nine members of the Friendship Club, meeting to work on a cookbook. The Friendship Club is an interracial women's club, formed to develop mutua...
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Marc's Big Boy Protest

Date: 1963
Description: Group of people, probably including NAACP Youth Council members, picketing outside Marc's Big Boy restaurant. Lloyd Barbee is second from the left.
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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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Raising a Fist

Date: 1975
Description: A school boy is raising a fist for the photographer while sitting with a group of his friends. Handwritten caption on the reverse: "These boys asked us to ...
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Ku Klux Klan Sign

Date: 1975
Description: A man, sitting on porch steps, is holding up a sign that reads: "K.K.K. + S.B + H.P." (Ku Klux Klan plus South Boston plus Hyde Park.) Standing on the porc...
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Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of students are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. Two boys are holding an effigy of an African-American man. In the ...
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Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of South Boston teenagers posing with an effigy of an African-American man. In the background is a chain-link fence, shrubs and a housing project. ...
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Journey of Reconciliation

Date: 1947
Description: Nine men are posing in front of a storefront for S.W. Robinson Real Estate. They are holding suitcases and coats and are all wearing suits. Caption reads: ...

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