1968 Riot Collection

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.

Crowd of people walking across a grassy lot at Parade Park. Behind the crowd are buildings and school buses. In front of the crowd are parked cars in the street.

Crowd is standing on Grand Boulevard at the Jackson County Courthouse. While a man speaks in the crowd, several people of the press stand around him holding up microphones.

Crowd is standing on Grand Boulevard at the Jackson County Courthouse. An older man in the center of the photo is speaking into a microphone, while another man behind him is a holding a second...

Crowd is standing on Grand Boulevard at the Jackson County Courthouse. In the center of the photo, a man wearing a black jacket and sunglasses is speaking into a microphone and pointing ahead of him.

Crowd standing on Grand Boulevard at the Jackson County Courthouse.

Crowd standing on Grand Boulevard at the Jackson County Courtouhse.

Crowd standing on the sidewalk next to Grand Boulevard at the Jackson County Courthouse; light photo.

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...

Crowd with raised fists on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse; blurred photo.

Crown Drug Store, destroyed by fire. Debris clutters the street and sidewalk.

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.

Five African American men standing in the back of a pickup truck and speaking to the crowd at Parade Park. The man speaking into the microphone is wearing glasses and a suit.

Five African American men in suits stand along the stone wall in heated talks with white male police officers outside Lincoln High School. An African American man in the center of the group is leaning...