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Police resistance, Passaic Textile Strike, 1926

Martin Winkler of Garfield, New Jersey is arrested for resistance, after which he received a 10 day prison sentence.This event took place during the…
Dig In! [editorial cartoon by Fred O. Seibel]

Editorial cartoon in support of the Salvation Army Home Service Fund by Fred O. Seibel, published in The Knickerbocker Press, May 1919. Mounted and…
Sit-in Songs : Songs of the Freedom Riders

Songs recorded by participants in CORE's Freedom Highways project in the summer of 1962. The project was designed to open chain restaurants along…