Wisconsin historical images
The Wisconsin Historical Society presents a collection of Wisconsin historical images from the 19th and 20th centuries. The images include photographs, paintings, and posters. Users may search the images by keyword or by category. The categories include children, crime, ethnic groups, health, immigration and emigration, war, women, rites and ceremonies, and Indians of North America.
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Date of Original
1940/1973
Subject
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights workers--United States
Clergy--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Congress of Racial Equality
Demonstrations--United States
Direct action--United States
Discrimination in housing--Wisconsin
Discrimination in public accommodations--Wisconsin
Discrimination in restaurants--United States
F.W. Woolworth Company
Flags--United States
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Howard Johnson Co.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Lawyers--Arkansas
Legislators--Wisconsin
Libraries--Tennessee--Monteagle
Military uniforms
Mississippi Freedom Schools
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Welfare Rights Organization (U.S.)
Offices--United States
Picketing--United States
Police vehicles--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Police--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Poverty--United States
Presidents' spouses--Tennessee--Monteagle
Protest marches--United States
Public welfare--United States
Public worship--Washington (D.C.)
Religion and politics--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Rental housing--Arkansas
Restaurants--United States
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Segregation in education--United States
Segregation in transportation--Arkansas--Stuttgart
Singing--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Sit-ins--Mississippi--Jackson
Social integration--Illinois--Chicago
Social justice--United States
Social reformers--United States
Southern Conference Educational Fund--Employees
Southern Students Organizing Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Arkansas Project
United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st
United States--Race relations--History--20th century
White supremacy movements--United States
Wisconsin--Capital and capitol
Women social reformers--United States
People
Barbee, Lloyd A., 1925-2002
Barry, Marion, 1936-2014
Bates, Daisy
Beals, Melba
Bond, Julian, 1940-
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975
Branton, Wiley Austin, 1923-1988
Trickey, Minnijean Brown
Cade, Cathy, 1942-
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987
Dombrowski, James A. (James Anderson), 1897-1983
Eckford, Elizabeth, 1942-
Farmer, James, 1920-
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
Groppi, James, 1930-
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972
Kennedy, Ethel, 1928-
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Moody, Anne, 1940-
Moore, Amzie, 1911-1982
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
Phillips, Vel R., 1924-
Sherrod, Charles, 1937-
Shirah, Sam
Location
United States, Arkansas, Arkansas County, Stuttgart, 34.50037, -91.55263
United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
United States, Tennessee, Grundy County, 35.38837, -85.72258
United States, Tennessee, Marion County, Monteagle, 35.24008, -85.8397
United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, 43.0389, -87.90647
Medium
black-and-white photographs
pamphlets
posters
web sites
Type
StillImage
Description
Web site with a searchable database of historical images from the Civil Rights movement in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the United States, including Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. While most images are black-and-white photographs, there are also images of other objects, including pamphlets and posters., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Rights Holder
These images are issued by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Use of the images requires written permission from the staff of the Division of Library-Archives. they may not be sold or redistributed, copied or distributed as a photograph, electronic file, or any other media. The images should not be significantly altered through conventional or electronic means. Images altered beyond standard cropping and resizing require further negotiation with a staff member. The user is responsible for all issues of copyright., Please Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society.
Contributing Institution
Wisconsin Historical Society
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