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| Date: | 07 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Image of a church dedication service taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Church dedication — Society Hill Baptist Church — most of these people are minis... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Three individuals point towards shotgun holes in a door and on the side of a building, highlighted by circles. The building is the Pheba Freedom House, use... |
| Date: | 12 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Melba Pattillo, later Melba Pattillo Beals, of the Little Rock Nine. |
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| Description: | SNCC workers teach a young Danville man how to protect himself from a policeman's club. |
| Date: | 06 23 1966 |
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| Description: | Letter of introduction for Mrs. Robert (Vicki) Gabriner indicating that she is authorized by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin to collect materials... |
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| The Wisconsin Historical Society placed the Lloyd A. Barbee House in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County on the State Register of Historic Places. |
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| Description: | A woman testifying during the Highlander investigation. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a demonstration to end racism and repression in North Carolina. An outline of the shape of North Carolina is in the center, with a banne... |
| Date: | 01 1950 |
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| Description: | 22 people posing together in front of the White House. Caption reads: "CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS CALL ON PRESIDENT: Pictured on White House grounds is the deleg... |
| Date: | 07 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a church building taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Dedication services of the Society Hill Baptist Church. At least 400 negroes jammed t... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A woman and two children, photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Mrs. Ernestine Bishop, another most courageous freedom worker. Last summer she walk... |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rosa Parks at Mrs. Anne Braden's home. |
| Date: | 03 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Gov. Warren Knowles, right, is shown addressing the 175 Beloit College students who undertook a two-day march to the capitol from their campus 50 miles awa... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Civil rights activist Walter Williams lying face down on the floor near the lunch counter at Woolworths, where he was taking part in a sit-in. He had just ... |
| Date: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large group of Freedom Riders carrying food and blankets and boarding three buses to leave Madison bound for Selma, Alabama to ... |
| Date: | 07 1964 |
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| Description: | The cover of the newsletter the Ruleville Freedom Fighter. |
| Date: | 07 20 1964 |
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| Description: | Cover art of the newsletter Drew Freedom Fighter. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Group of protesters march in front of a Howard Johnson's restaurant holding signs. One says "Segregation OUT!! Integration IN!! CORE - NAACP". |
| Date: | 04 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Alabama governor George Wallace shaking hands with members of the Madison Exchange club. They invited Wallace to give a speech at the Cuba Club restaurant ... |
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