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| Date: | 01 12 2016 |
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| Description: | Save the Mounds Protest participants march around the Capitol building against Assembly Bill 620. The lead marchers hold standards and flags. |
| Date: | 01 12 2016 |
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| Description: | Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol building against Assembly Bill 620. Demonstrators holding flags and standards wait to enter the Capitol. |
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| Description: | Men and women walking along a sidewalk carrying Fair Housing signs. The bottom of one sign reads: "NAACP Youth Council." |
| Date: | 02 11 2016 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women standing outside the Democratic presidential debates holding up signs in support of Hillary Clinton. |
| Date: | 02 11 2016 |
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| Description: | A supporter of Hillary Clinton confronting a group of anti-Hillary demonstrators. Both groups are holding up signs. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Student rally in the Great Hall at Memorial Union to establish a Chicano Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Protesters standing behind a fence at an anti-spearfishing rally. The man in the center is holding a sign that reads: "Spearing Sucks." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators marching up Wisconsin Avenue with a banner that includes the text: "Stop The Bombing! Sign the Treaty Now! U.S. Out of Indochina Now!" |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Renee Harris and other fashionably-dressed women holding a banner that reads: "Stage Women's War Relief" outside the Hudson Theatre. |
| Date: | 07 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally. |
| 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: | 11 18 1966 |
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| Description: | Two men carry signs to protest exploitation of tenants who are members of Local 404 by their landlord who is manager of College Barber Shop. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Protesters demonstrating for women's rights parade up and down Fifth Avenue. They had previously been arrested at the White House. |
| 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: | 04 06 1973 |
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| Description: | Women picketing at a shopping center, urging others to boycott meat. One woman is wearing a sign on her back that reads: "I'm a farmer's wife." |
| Date: | 04 06 1973 |
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| Description: | Two women picketing in front of a shopping center urging the boycotting of meat. One woman carries a NFO sign that reads: "Farm families must be paid for t... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of students from McComb High School standing near a car holding signs with messages, including: "Vote Negroes" and "We Will Suffer... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Children hold signs that read "We Need A Place To Play" and "We Need a Street to Play On," which is related to the Newark Community Union Project. |
| Date: | 07 1966 |
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| Description: | A couple with three children walking on the sidewalk on their way to or from a peace march. |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | Soldiers watching a Nazi rally in Danzig from which American correspondent Alvin Steinkopf was reporting for the Associated Press in 1939. |
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