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Bessie Mitchell distributing posters and handbills in Trenton, New Jersey, Nov. 1949

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
Created Date:
1949 11
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Civil Rights Congress photograph collection

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Women Civil Rights Workers
  2. African Americans
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
  5. Demonstrations
  6. Mitchell, Bessie English
  7. Trenton (N.J.)
  8. Trenton Six Trial, Trenton, N.J., 1948 1951
  9. Women

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