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| Date: | 02 02 1980 |
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| Description: | Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o... |
| Date: | 07 04 1991 |
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| Description: | New York members of Veterans for Peace, a national organization that united veterans of all wars, marching in a Fourth of July Parade. |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Members of the Clarence Fitch Chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, marching in a Veterans' Day event, probably in New York City. |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day rally with a crowd of Union members on the steps of a large stone building. Banners read "United Labor 51st May Day: 1886-1937" "German-American W... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Social action poster advertising a march against executions. The headline at top reads, "National March Against Death," and at the bottom "Stop Executions.... |
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| Description: | A woman holds a sign that reads, "Rosedale Playground is America's Shame!" as she stands next to the playground. She is protesting the exclusion of African... |
| Date: | 08 1980 |
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| Description: | Two men holding a banner that reads: "Re-think I-43" in protest of the newly built highway. The highway runs from Green Bay to Beloit by way of Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 01 12 2016 |
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| Description: | Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. Elevated view of the protesters on the Capitol grounds looking towards S... |
| Date: | 01 12 2016 |
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| Description: | Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. View from behind Joanne Jones of the Ho Chunk Nation, speaker, standing ... |
| Date: | 01 12 2016 |
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| Description: | Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. View looking down at the crowd, with many people holding protest signs. ... |
| Date: | 01 12 2016 |
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| Description: | Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. View of the protesters on the Capitol grounds, with many of the people h... |
| 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: | A man in a Ron Paul for President t-shirt is holding up a sign reading: "Hillary is a Criminal" in front of a group of Hillary supporters. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | A crowd of mostly young men and women are holding up their protest signs outside the Donald Trump rally. A woman in the middle has a sign reading: "You Can... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Three men walking and holding a banner which reads: "Donald Trump racist enemy of all workers.workers.org," in front of a crowd of protesters outside the D... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber protesting welfare cuts. Father Groppi is seated on the lef... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Recruitment poster for a Soviet Jewry Freedom Bus, advocating the liberation of the Soviet Jewish population. Features large chain links and the phrase "Le... |
| Date: | 04 1975 |
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| Description: | "Irwin Silber, an editor of the 'Guardian'," a radical weekly newspaper, speaking to an anti-war rally in a square near a large sculpture. |
| Date: | 08 09 2002 |
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| Description: | Members of Nukewatch protesting at the Project Elf facility near Clam Lake. This protest was part of the organization's annual Hiroshima event, and the pro... |
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