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| Date: | 03 2007 |
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| Description: | A group of people holding a banner while marching down a road as they take part in the Faith and Politics Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Selma. |
| Date: | 08 2013 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women gathered outdoors to protest the restriction of civil rights at the Wisconsin State Capitol at noontime. Three people are playing ... |
| View an extensive image collection about this early social leadership center that focused on labor organization, and later, civil rights. |
| Civil Rights Advocate and Legislator |
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| Biography of Lloyd A. Barbee, Milwaukee civil rights advocate and legislator. |
| Date: | 03 2002 |
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| Description: | Congressman Michael Forbes, an unidentified woman, and Robert Zellner pose in front of the Martin Luther King, Jr. monument in front of the Brown Chapel Ba... |
| Learn about the 7th Wisconsin Historical Society director who developed civil rights documentation, local history preservation and Old World Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A large crowd of men and women standing outside the Republican presidential debate holding signs, banners, and flags. Most of the signs read: "Black lives ... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Joe Davis, Milwaukee's 2nd district Alderman, speaking through a megaphone to a crowd of protesters outside the Republican presidential debate. He is stand... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of Joe Davis, Milwaukee's 2nd district Alderman, as he is speaking through a megaphone to a crowd of protesters outside the Republican presid... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| 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... |
| Learn about the LGBT rights movement in Wisconsin. This article also contains links to other articles about the history of the LGBT movement in WI. |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A group of people are taking photographs of the protesters outside the Republican presidential debate. In the center are two giant effigy puppets of Donald... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A large group of protesters walking down the street holding signs reading: "Chase the Money," "Black Lives Matter," "Immigrant Justice," and "Fight for $15... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A young African American man is standing in the middle of a crowd speaking through a megaphone. Two camera operators are filming him as he is speaking. He ... |
| Date: | 04 03 2016 |
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| Description: | Students hold up a large banner reading: "The Real UW" at the Bernie Sanders rally held in the Kohl Center. The sign includes an illustration of the Bucky ... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | A large group of people gathering outdoors at the Donald Trump rally. Luke McGowan-Arnold is playing his guitar, (with a harmonica and American flag attach... |
| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | View towards a man walking alone down the middle of the closed street outside of the Republican presidential debate at the Milwaukee Theater. The man is ho... |
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