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Aerial view of crowd, policemen, and tear gas at City Hall

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Aerial view of crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas, with a police blockade in the upper left portion of the photo.

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Aerial view of people in street at City Hall

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Aerial view of people in the street outside City Hall. In the center of the groups of people are a line of police officers.

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Aerial view of tear gas and crowd at City Hall

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Aerial view of crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; taken from a high floor in Police Headquarters. Police cars are...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Aerial view of the crowd at City Hall

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Closer aerial shot of the crowd at City Hall; taken from a high floor in the Police Headquarters. Photo shows crowd gathering at City Hall doors while...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Aerial view of the crowd at City Hall

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Aerial view of the crowd gathering at City Hall; taken from a high floor in the Police Headquarters. Photo shows crowd gathering at City Hall doors...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Back of crowd at Parade Park

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Back of crowd at Parade Park, with a group of three policemen watching from distance, standing next to their motorcycles.

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Close up of crowd with Fathers Warner and Fly

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Close up of crowd outside City Hall, with police officers in the foreground wearing gas masks; Father Ed Warner and Father Fly standing on 12th St. in...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Clouds of tear gas filling 12th Street

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Cloud of tear gas filling 12th Street; Policeman in foreground wearing a gas mask with a pistol on his hip and holding a baton in his hand.

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd and police gathered at Parade Park

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Crowd and Police at Parade Park; view from East 17th Terrace and Vine. In the right portion of the photo, a white policeman stands next to his...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd and police gathered at Parade Park

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Crowd and police at Parade Park; view from East 17th Terrace and Vine. In center of the photo is a street sign that reads "E 17th Ter". Among the...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd at City Hall beginning to run from police

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Crowd outside City Hall beginning to run from the Police. Some people are running in the opposite direction of the police officers, who are lined up...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd of bystanders and police at Parade Park

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Crowd and police at Parade Park; view from East 17th Terrace and Vine. In center of the photo is a street sign that reads "E 17th Ter". Among the...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd of bystanders and police at Parade Park

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Crowd and police at Parade Park; view from East 17th Terrace and Vine. In center of the photo is a street sign that reads "E 17th Ter". Among the...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd of people running from tear gas with Father Fly

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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...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd on steps of City Hall

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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...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd on the steps of Police Headquarters

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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...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd running from tear gas across from City Hall

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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...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd running from tear gas across from City Hall

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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...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd running from tear gas across from City Hall

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

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd running in street and on sidewalk

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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...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Crowd running on sidewalk with police on foreground

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

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Father Ed Warner falls onto ground and is surrounded by police

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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...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Father Ed Warner falls onto ground and is surrounded by police

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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.

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Father Ed Warner taken down by police in a cloud of tear gas

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

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Four policemen and children in residential area

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Four white policemen and children (African American and white boys) in residential area, standing among vehicles. The officer in the center of the...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

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  • 1968 Riot Collection (63)

Types

  • photographs (63)

Genres

  • Snapshots (63)
  • Black & white photographs (53)
  • Color photographs (10)
  • Slides (10)
  • Transparencies (10)
  • Aerial views (3)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (63)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (63)
  • Demonstrations (47)
  • Crowds (38)
  • Men, White (23)
  • Police brutality (21)
  • Tear gas (16)
  • African American men (11)
  • African American women (6)
  • City halls (5)
  • Clergy (4)
  • Journalists (3)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Courthouses (1)
  • Firearms (1)
  • Police vehicles (1)
  • Service stations (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Tear gas munitions (1)
  • Truncheons (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Police (63)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (63)
  • 12th Street (18)
  • Linwood Boulevard (8)
  • Paseo Boulevard (7)
  • Oak Street (6)
  • Parade Park (6)
  • 17th Terrace (4)
  • Locust Street (3)
  • Grand Avenue (1)

Subjects, People

  • Fly, Father (5)
  • Warner, Father Ed (5)
  • Rivers Smith, Lena (3)

Date Published

  • (-) 1968-04-09 (63)

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