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| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | One of the many demonstrations organized by the People's Progressive Party in Milwaukee to fight the ever-rising cost of living. The campaign includes the ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1978 |
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| Description: | A crowd of protesters gathered with picket signs to speak out against nuclear energy and weapons development in the U.S. Bella Abzug, is front left. |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison law students protest CIA activities. |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | CIO members joined Lincoln Brigade veterans in a demonstration on Wisconsin Avenue last week to demand the breaking off of U.S. diplomatic relations with F... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A picket line of men protesting the Cone Mills White Oaks Plant. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 01 28 1985 |
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| Description: | Farm family youth demonstrates to call awareness to the economic problems facing the family farm. |
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| Description: | Women hold signs at an ACORN rally. One woman's sign touts "Jesse Jackson in '88!". |
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| Description: | A crowd of people gather to demonstrate. They hold a banner that reads, "Our GI's Bring Them Home Now!". |
| Date: | 09 01 1940 |
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| Description: | An exhibit at the Barron County Fair about the care of premature infants. |
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| Description: | Sign posted along side of the road reading "The people of Rudolph say no to nuclear power plants." |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates and others at Woolworth's boycott. |
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| Description: | March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right. |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 03 25 1966 |
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| Description: | Anti-Vietnam War protestors demonstrate outside the Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Baraboo. |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | International Days of Protest demonstration at the University of California-Berkeley. |
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| Description: | Members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War parade near the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. |
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| Description: | A Vietnam veteran holds a hand-lettered sign that reads, "No More Veteran Guinea Pigs". |
| 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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