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1. Julian Bond tours Vine City in Atlanta, Georgia

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1968
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Georgia State Representative Julian Bond tours the poverty-stricken Vine City area of his legislative district, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968. Photograph by Vernon Merritt; originally published in 'Life' magazine.

2. Gwen Green with her Daughter Yvonne and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King

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1968
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(No Date Given) (l-r) Gwen Green's daughter, Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke, Gwen Green, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. (Merv Dymally Behind) Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke on a balcony in Annahiem with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. three weeks before Dr. King's muder at the CVC Convention. Yvonne Briathwaite-Burke says that Dr. King's murderer was also at the Convention Caption: Gwen Green with her Daughter Yvonne and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Legend: Braithwaite-Burke and Dr. King stand in front of Gwen Green, right, and her daughter on a balcony in Anaheim California approximately three weeks before Dr. King was assassinated. Dr. King was in the Los Angeles area for a CDC Convention.

4. Jacoby Dickens with Merri Dee (#1)

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Date:
1968
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Jacoby Dickens (right) with Merri Dee (left) from WGN-TV Channel 9 in Chicago (#1)

5. Jeff Donaldson

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Date:
1968
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Jeff Donaldson a photo taken by MGM

7. 'Resurrection City'

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1968
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'Resurrection City,' as part of the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., 1968.

8. Frank Clark in Vietnam

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Date:
1968
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Frank Clark in the Army at An Khe, Vietnam, 1968

10. Dr. William P. Foster with Band Members

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Date:
1968
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Dr. William P. Foster (standing, center) poses with five Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College Marching “100” Band members in their new band uniforms, 1968.

11. Veronica Jones' College Graduation Photo

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Date:
1968
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Veronica Jones' graduation photo from the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising in New York, New York (1968).

13. Bernard Kinsey With Florida A&M University Corporate America Alumnus

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Date:
1968
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(L to R) Bernard Kinsey (right) with his Florida A&M University corporate America alumni: Hugh Robinson of Western Electric; Aaron Green of Link Group; Thomas Mitchell of Dupont Company and Mitchell Moses of Westinghouse (1968).

23. Marcia Cantarella at Her College Graduation

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Date:
1968
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Marcia Cantarella hooding her father, Whitney M. Young Jr., the commencement speaker, during her college graduation from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1968).

26. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Gathering

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Date:
1968
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Crowd of twenty thousand people gathered in commemoration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination in Seattle, Washington (1968).

29. Newspaper Clipping of Yanick Rice Lamb With Her Family

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Date:
1968
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Article featuring Yanick Rice Lamb (second right) at ten years old with her family members (L to R) including her sister, Michelle Trotter; her mother, Carmelie LaForest Jordan; the caseworker, Loretta Centofanti and her grandmother, Thercia LaForest's naturalization ceremony (1968).

30. Myrtis Dightman in Rodeo (#2)

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Date:
1968
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Myrtis Dightman wins fourth place at the Nation Finals Rodeo on the bull Mesquite in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1968).

31. Callie Crossley High School News Articles

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Date:
1968
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Callie Crossley's newspaper articles published in the high school's newspaper “The Warrior” at Central High School in Memphis, Tennessee (1968).

32. Callie Crossley in News Article

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Date:
1968
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Callie Crossley featured as a scholarship recipient in a local newspaper article in Memphis, Tennessee (1968).

35. Clayton W. Bates, Jr. at the 4th Symposium on Photoelectric Image Device

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Date:
1968
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Clayton W. Bates, Jr. at the 4th Symposium on Photoelectric Image Devices held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England on the steps of Albert Hall. Clayton W. Bates, Jr. helped organize the symposium, gave three lectures, and attended the meeting when he was on sabbatical for Varian Associates for developing the new x-ray image intensifying tube.

36. Roger Wilkins's daughter

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Date:
1968
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Roger Wilkins's daughter, Amy Wilkins at age six, Washington, D.C., ca. 1968.

37. Nathan Hare Giving a Speech

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Date:
1968
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Nathan Hare giving his Black History Speech at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

38. Avon Performing in Finnian's Rainbow

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Date:
1968
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Avon Kirkland playing Og the Leprechaun in an amateur production of the musical Finnian’s Rainbow in Chicago, Illinois (1958).

39. Joseph Daniel Clipper’s Famous Portrait

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Date:
1968
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Joseph Daniel Clipper's famous portrait. (L to R) Stokeley Carmichael, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson (1968)

47. Jerry Fanion at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral

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Date:
1968
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(L to R) Jerry Fanion, James Luther Bevel and Ralph David Abernathy Sr. at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis, Tennessee (1968).

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