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| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | George Wiley speaking at a rally, wearing a "Welfare Rights Now!" button on his shirt. |
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| Description: | Vietnam veterans reenacting events that took place during the war. |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council demonstrating outside the Eagles Club at night beneath a marquee advertising a Duke Ellington performance. |
| Date: | 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather. |
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| Description: | March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right. |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A group sings freedom songs at the Freedom School Convention during Freedom Summer. |
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| Description: | A man wearing sunglasses holds up a sign that reads "ACORN Says: People Over Profits" at a rally. |
| Date: | 06 22 1966 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King Jr. marching with a group of people in commemoration of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi, seen wearing sunglasses in the middle of a crowd, leads a demonstration against discrimination. |
| Date: | 12 1978 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people with signs march to the Democratic Party mid-term convention during the first national ACORN convention. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Demonstration at the Greyhound Bus station, showing a woman holding a sign that reads: "Sit Down Like Human Beings, Up Front." SNCC Arkansas Project. |
| Date: | 09 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Protesters at a rally for fair housing. One man is holding a sign that reads: "We Demand Fair Housing Now," while others behind him are using a bullhorn. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of young people on a sidewalk protesting with signs in support of the MFDP. |
| Date: | 11 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council rally. She is wearing the organization's sweatshirt. Other unidentified people are marching wi... |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| 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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| 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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| Description: | The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration. |
| 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: | 02 11 2016 |
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| Description: | An African American man is standing outdoors speaking through a megaphone in front of a crowd in support of the fifteen dollar minimum wage. |
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