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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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Civil Rights Protest at Howard Johnson's

Date: 1960
Description: Group of protesters march in front of a Howard Johnson's restaurant holding signs. One says "Segregation OUT!! Integration IN!! CORE - NAACP".
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Daisy Bates, the Little Rock Nine and the 101st Airborne Division

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Daisy Bates looks out from her front window as members of the 101st Airborne Division prepare to escort members of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High S...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. During Bus Ride

Date: 12 21 1956
Description: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding a bus with white Methodist minister Glenn Smiley during the Montgomery bus integration struggle. The man seated in fro...
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Union Worker Supports Civil Rights

Date: 1960
Description: Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W...
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Standoff at Gresham

Date: 1975
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...
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Ghetto Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion.
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Quarantine Fence

Date: 1940
Description: A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had...
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Voters Welcome

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Description: A poster with an image of armed law enforcement officers surrounding a building during an election or voter education meeting. The text reads, "Voters Welc...
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Protesters Outside the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: View of the front of a line of protesters marching down the street near to the Republican presidential debate at the Milwaukee Theater. The group is clappi...
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Student Union Movement Protesting Outside the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Young women and men holding up a banner reading: "Student Union Movement," a social justice group based out of Milwaukee Area Technical College. Other peop...
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Speaking to Protesters Outside the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A young woman on the right is walking in front of a large crowd of protesters. She is wearing a reflective vest and is speaking through a megaphone. The cr...
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MEChA de UW-Madison at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A large crowd of protesters standing on the street outside the Republican presidential debate. The group are mostly college age, although a young boy is st...
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Protesters Lying in the Street

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Numerous protest groups, including the Overpass Light Brigade, and the Student Union Movement, are forming a ring around young protesters as they are lying...
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Woman Shaking Her Fist at School Bus

Date: 1975
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. ...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
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...
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School Boycott Leader

Date: 1975
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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School Boycott Leader

Date: 1975
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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South Boston Children

Date: 1975
Description: Students from South Boston are posing and clowning on a curb near a street corner. Older students are standing or sitting on chain-link fence. In the backg...

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