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Group of protesters holding "We Shall Overcome" sign

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Group poses for photo in the street; one member holding a "We Shall Overcome" sign.

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

Group of protesters holding "We Shall Overcome" sign with fists raised

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Crowd poses for photo in the street; one member holding "We Shall Overcome" sign. Four people have their arms raised in the air making fists.

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

Group of protesters. one holding a "We Shall Overcome" sign

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Group poses for photo in the street; one member holding a "We Shall Overcome" sign.

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

Large crowd running away from police at City Hall

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Large crowd running away from police officers and tear gas outside City Hall. In the foreground a man is standing with his hands in his pockets...

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

Large crowd walking down narrow street

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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.

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

Large group of African American students sitting on car

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Large group of African American students sitting on the hood and trunk of a car, heading north on Vine St. at 24th. Around them are other cars and...

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

Large group of officers gathered next to Police Headquarters

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Large group of police gathered on 12th St. and Locust, next to Police Headquarters. Many officers have their backs to the camera, and have their arms...

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

Large group of police wearing gas masks

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Large group of police wearing gas masks with their backs to the camera on 12th St. outside City Hall. In the background of the photo is City Hall with...

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

Lena Rivers Smith approaches officers outside City Hall

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Close up of line of white male police officers with gas masks armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns outside City Hall. One officer in the middle...

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

Lena Rivers Smith standing in front of police line

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Lena Rivers Smith, a journalist and on-air reporter, is standing in front of a line of police officers wearing gas masks and armed with tear gas...

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

Lena Rivers Smith walks in front of a line of police officers outside City Hall

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Line of police officers wearing gas masks and armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns outside City Hall. Behind them is a group of African...

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

Man running down 12th Street in a cloud of tear gas

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Unidentified African American man running down 12th Street in a cloud of tear gas.

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

National Guard marching in two lines down a sidewalk

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Aerial view of National Guard marching in two straight lines downtown on a sidewalk.

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

Officers on telephones at Police Headquarters

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Officers and officials (all white men) on telephones, sitting around a large conference table at Police Headquarters. An officer stands in the center...

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

Officers outside of police headquarters

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White male police officers walking toward camera with police headquarters at 12th and Locust in the background. The first officer is carrying his...

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

Officers outside Police Command Post

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Policemen sitting at makeshift plywood desks in front of tent at Police Command Post on Linwood and Paseo. The first officer is wearing sunglasses and...

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

Parked cars and crowd at Parade Park

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Parked cars along street outside Parade Park. To the left of the photo are crowds of people behind the parked cars.

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

Parked cars and crowd at Parade Park

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Parked cars and a crowd outside Parade Park; a man is entering the car to the left of photo.

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

People running from a cloud of tear gas at the corner of 12th and Grand

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A group of people run from a cloud of tear gas at the corner of 12th and Grand. One man runs through the gas. Cars are in the street on the other side...

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

Police and crowd outside City Hall

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Police and crowd at the corner of 12th and Oak St., outside City Hall. The majority of the policemen are standing in the street, with a few on...

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

Police approaching the crowd at John Linville's Standard Oil Station

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Police approaching the crowd crossing through John Linville's Standard Oil Station on Linwood Blvd. across the street from Central High School. The...

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

Police Command Post at Linwood and Paseo

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Police Command Post at Linwood and Paseo. Photo shows the side of the Police Headquarters building. In the center of the photo is a tent, with a...

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

Police Command Post at Linwood and Paseo

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Police Command Post at Linwood and Paseo. The far right and left sides of the photo show police cars lined in a dirt parking lot. Up the driveway...

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

Police Command Post parking lot at Linwood and Paseo

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Police Command Post at Linwood and Paseo. Photo shows back portion of Police Headquarters building. A row of cars are parked and lined up against the...

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

Police following behind a crowd running from tear gas down 12th Street

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Police in gas masks following behind a crowd running from tear gas down 12th Street; present in the crowd are Father Ed Warner and Father Fly...

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

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  • 1968 Riot Collection (160)

Types

  • photographs (160)

Genres

  • Snapshots (160)
  • Black & white photographs (129)
  • Color photographs (31)
  • Slides (31)
  • Transparencies (31)
  • Aerial views (15)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (160)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (157)
  • Demonstrations (115)
  • Crowds (113)
  • Police (63)
  • African American men (39)
  • Police brutality (35)
  • Men, White (34)
  • African American women (25)
  • Tear gas (25)
  • African American students (14)
  • City halls (11)
  • Civil rights demonstrations (11)
  • Students (8)
  • Clergy (6)
  • African American children (4)
  • Church buildings (4)
  • Service stations (4)
  • Signs and signboards (4)
  • Journalists (3)
  • Roads (3)
  • Vandalism (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • African Americans (2)
  • Boys (2)
  • Courthouses (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Firearms (1)
  • Gesture (1)
  • Helping behavior (1)
  • High school buildings (1)
  • Police vehicles (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Tear gas munitions (1)
  • Truncheons (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (159)
  • Parade Park (31)
  • 12th Street (25)
  • Paseo Boulevard (15)
  • Linwood Boulevard (12)
  • Oak Street (7)
  • 17th Terrace (6)
  • Truman Road (4)
  • Vine Street (4)
  • Interstate 70 (3)
  • Locust Street (3)
  • Flora Avenue (2)
  • Flora Street (2)
  • 24th Street (1)
  • Charlotte Street (1)
  • Grand Avenue (1)
  • McGee Street (1)

Subjects, People

  • Fly, Father (7)
  • Warner, Father Ed (7)
  • Rivers Smith, Lena (3)
  • Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (1)
  • Watkins, Bruce R. (Bruce Riley), 1924-1980 (1)

Date Published

  • (-) 1968-04-09 (160)

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