1968 Riot Collection

Crowd at Parade Park with their backs to the camera, looking toward a group of African American men wearing berets speaking into a microphone.

Crowd marching west on I-70 toward camera. Group of young people in the front of the crowd are smiling at each other. Traffic follows behind them in the background.

Crowd marching west on I-70. Members of crowd are walking across the interstate in front of vehicles, and many are congregated in the middle of the highway. The photo displays a Ford truck and a car...

Crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas; Father Fly stands at the center of the photo behind a child on a bicycle, and is looking back behind him toward the police. In the front of the...

Crowd crossing through John Linville's Standard Oil Station on Linwood Blvd. across the street from Central High School. A few people in the crowd in the right portion of the photo have their hands...

Crowd marching from Manual High School, turning from East Truman Rd. onto Paseo Blvd. The group is walking on the left side of the street, with a car in front and three cars behind them. The first...

Crowd marching from Manual High School, turning from East Truman Rd. onto Paseo Blvd. A man stands next to an officer and is turned toward him, talking in the bottom right corner of the photo. To the...

Large crowd of people marching down the right side of the road. Photo is taken up ahead of the crowd, with the majority of the bottom of the photo being the road and grass.

Crowd on the steps of City Hall, with Policemen and National Guard lined up at the door. In the center of the photo, a group of African American men are walking toward the camera, alongside the line...

Crowd on the steps of Police Headquarters on Locust St., across the street from City Hall. The right portion of the photo shows a young African American man leaning against a rail on the steps of...

Close up shot of crowd outside City Hall. A white man is holding up a megaphone in the background of a group of African Americans. In the crowd are several young people facing various directions.

Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall, one person is riding a bicycle; Police in the foreground. Majority of the photo is obscured by tear gas.

Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police in the foreground, one holding a baton in his hands. In the center of the photo is a child on a bicycle.

Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police in the foreground. Photo partially obscured by two police officers standing in front of the camera.

Crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas; Fathers Fly and Ed Warner on left-hand side.

Crowd running down sidewalk and street from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police officer in the foreground carrying a baton in his hand.

Crowd running on sidewalk from Oak St. on to 12th; Police in the foreground.

Crowd running away from tear gas, up steps. Photo is partially obscured due to tear gas.

Crowd at Parade Park with their backs to the camera, looking toward three African American men standing in the back of a truck with a microphone wearing berets.

Large crowd marching down a narrow street. The far right side of the photo shows a a group of African American men getting into a car.

Crowd marching down width of street, turning right. A few people walk alongside the crowd on the sidewalk. Majority of photo is of the street ahead of crowd, with the crowd itself in the upper portion...

Father Ed Warner on the lawn outside the courthouse, having been beaten by police, being helped by three passersby.

Father Ed Warner on the ground in the street filled with tear gas surrounded by police wearing gas masks and wielding batons, Father Fly is trying to get to Father Warner but is being held back by...

Father Ed Warner gets taken down by group of police wearing gas masks and wielding batons and falls to the ground. Father Fly stands next to police.

Father Ed Warner gets taken down by police in gas masks in a cloud of tear gas; photo mostly obscured by tear gas.