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Father Groppi and Demonstrators

Date: 1968
Description: Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation"
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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...
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School Desegregation Pickets

Date: 1964
Description: A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation.
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Herbert March Speaking at Rally

Date: 01 1952
Description: Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather.
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CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
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Anti-Civil Rights Protester

Date: 
Description: American Nazi protesting the rights of African Americans.
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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...
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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.
Poster

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Poster

Date: 06 1924
Description: Poster advertising the first annual Spring Festival and Entertainment event held on June 14, 1924 by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). There is an ima...
Print

SNCC Bumper Sticker

Date: 
Description: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) bumper sticker reading, "One man, one vote."
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Protest March

Date: 1964
Description: Group of protesters, including a man holding a sign that reads "Cops Aren't Judges".
Photograph

Worker Harassment

Date: 06 1955
Description: Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai...
Photograph

Two Faces of the UPWA

Date: 1948
Description: Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d...
Photograph

Anti-Desegregation Demonstrator

Date: 1963
Description: Man in a hat and long coat holding a sign opposing desegregation in schools. Possibly in Milwaukee.
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Fair Housing March

Date: 
Description: Marchers carrying signs bearing the names of Milwaukee suburbs during a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) march for fair housing in Milwaukee. They are pa...
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Wipe Out Discrimination

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the entrance to the Highlander Library, with a CIO student entering the doorway. The poster on the window reads: "CIO says, 'Wipe out Disc...
Photograph

Shell Labor Rally

Date: 
Description: Shell labor rally at an unknown location. Signs include the sayings, "Equal Pay for Women," "Negro and White, Unite and Fight," and "Let the Packers Pay O...
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Groppi Protesting Eagles Club

Date: 03 1966
Description: Father James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council demonstrating outside the Eagles Club at night beneath a marquee advertising a Duke Ellington performance.
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Greensboro Massacre Response

Date: 02 02 1980
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...
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...

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