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Toleration, Abolition, Suffrage, and Civil Rights

Broadside on the Maryland Toleration Act.
Title page from a work on the persecution of Quakers in New England.
Proclamation of 1734 relating to two scandalous songs.
The Liberator, 1831.
State rights tracts, 1832.
Clay, Fillmore, Clahoun, Webster in the Senate, 1850.
Two Portraits of John Brown.
John Brown.
The Tragic Prelude (John Brown).
Slave sale in Easton Maryland.
Caricature of abolitionists.
Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass House
Assault on Senator Sumner, 1856.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot.
Slave treatment.
Emancipation Proclamation.
First reading of the emancipation proclamation.
Booker T. Washington.
The apotheosis of suffrage.
Black Soldiers.
Samuel Gompers.
Child Laborers in Indiana Glass Works, Midnight, Indiana. 1908.
Child Laborer, Newberry, S.C. 1908.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Susan B. Anthony.
Suffrage parade, New York City, 1912.
Head of suffrage parade, Washington, D.C. 1913.
Suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., 1913.
Emma Goldman.
Suffragists picketing the White House, January 1917.
Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house.
Suffragette war volunteers.
Suffragette banner.
Black troops in France, ca. 1918.
Hazel Carter donned an Army uniform.
Women workers in ordnance shops.
National Anti-Suffrage Association.
Florence F. Noyes as "Liberty" in suffrage pageant.
Jeannette Rankin.
The 19th amendment.
What every mother should know (about birth control).
Creed of Klanswomen (KKK).
The menace of modern immigration (KKK).
Constitutional government overthrown in West Virginia (Industrial Workers of the World).
Industrial Workers of the World.
The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case including an analysis of the trial 1.
The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case including an analysis of the trial 2.
Sacco-Vanzetti and The Red Peril.
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti in Cartoons from The Daily Worker 1.
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti in Cartoons from The Daily Worker 2.
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti in Cartoons from The Daily Worker 3.
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti in Cartoons from The Daily Worker 4.
Lynching Negro Children in Southern Courts : (The Scottsboro Case)
The Scottsboro Boys 1.
The Scottsboro Boys 2.
Desegregation protest, 1933.
A Plea For Clemency In Scottsboro Negro Case.
Positively no beer sold to Indians.
Woman war worker.
Women war workers, 1942.
Japanese-American store closed.
Young evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
The Hirano family Colorado River Relocation Center.
Japanese-American internment center 1.
Japanese-American internment center 2.
Japanese-American internment center 3.
Colored Waiting Room.
Black officers, 1944.
Poster recruiting women, 1944
Poster: We Can Do it.
For justice and peace / by the Wives of the Hollywood Ten.
To Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case.
Eisenhower signing Civil Rights Act.
Eisenhower with civil rights leaders.
Civil rights demonstrator.
Statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children at Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. 
Leaders of Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.
Martin Luther King at Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.
LBJ Signing Civil Rights Act.
School segregation protest.
Martin Luther King and LBJ.
Black Panthers : are these cats red?
Capitalism plus dope equals genocide (Black Panthers).
SDS Leaflet 1.
SDS Leaflet 2.
Wounded Knee Indian Occupation 1.
Wounded Knee Indian Occupation 2.
Wounded Knee Indian Occupation 3.

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