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| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician... |
| Date: | 10 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Ballot box collects the vote by absentee ballot in the City County building. |
| Date: | 02 06 1973 |
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| Description: | Local P-28 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union votes for their officers. |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster announcing a Madison Vote-In event. Caption reads, "Be informed! Know Your Candidates!". |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster to Re-elect President Richard M. Nixon. Nixon is seated on steps with a young boy. A banner above the image reads "For the first time in 20... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster for 1972 Presidential Campaign. Poster features a head and shoulder profile of George McGovern. George Stanley McGovern, (born July 19, 1922) was a ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Poll workers wait for voters at the Town Hall. They are seated at tables on a platform. Below are a wood burning stove and folding chairs. |
| Date: | 10 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster supporting black students to register to vote. Features a student, with white face paints that reads, "Vote" and the slogan, "The Time is Now. Regis... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The State Legislature in session at the State Capitol. The board indicating votes cast is overhead. |
| Date: | 03 23 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating individuals to "vote yes for peace on April 6." The poster reads, "The war is over for 55,000 G.I.s and a million Vietnamese, it's all ov... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Two-sided, quarter-fold advertisement for a ten filmstrip program about the 1972 presidential election. The outside is the promotional information. The ins... |
| Date: | 12 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising live music at the Nitty Gritty. The noted bands are Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang and Spectre Inc. The text is in the shape of a hot air ballo... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Bus poster with a stylized image of a person and the text: "Military Spending Costs Madison Jobs! Vote Yes April, 3. Authorized and Paid for by the Peace a... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View towards the shoreline of a river, with three boys sitting on the bank in the foreground. There is a building among trees on the opposite shoreline. An... |
| Learn about America's presidential elections since 1856 and discover how Wisconsin voted. |
| from Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015) |
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| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
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| Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
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