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Aerial view of crowd and tear gas at City Hall

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Aerial view of crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas.

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

Aerial view of crowd and tear gas disbursing from street

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Aerial view of 12th Street with crowd mostly dispersed and tear gas filling the street where two police cars are stopped.

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

Aerial view of crowd at Vine Street and Paseo Blvd

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Aerial view of crowd marching down the center of Vine at Flora Ave. and Paseo. Behind the crowd are several cars.

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

Aerial view of crowd gathering at City Hall and the Jackson County Courthouse

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Aerial view of the lawn of City Hall, 12th St., and part of the Jackson County Courthouse, as the crowd gathers. A large crowd of people are filling...

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

Aerial view of crowd running from tear gas at City Hall

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Aerial view of crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas; photo is dark.

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

Aerial view of crowd running from tear gas away from City Hall

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Aerial view of crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas.

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

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 Kansas City

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Aerial view of Kansas City; Corwin Company at 12th and Charlotte, looking east.

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

Aerial view of Kansas City

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Aerial view of Kansas City.

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

Aerial view of Kansas City

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Aerial view of Kansas City.

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 steps and front lawn of City Hall

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Aerial view of the steps and front lawn of City Hall as the crowd gathers. Groups of people stretch from the street to the City Hall steps.

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

African American man in suit and glasses speaking alongside men in berets

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Six African American men standing in the back of a pickup truck and speaking to the crowd gathered around them at Parade Park.

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

African American man stands behind car at Parade Park with crowd behind him

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African American man stands behind a parked car next to grassy lot at Parade Park. The man has a moustache, and is wearing a sweater and jacket. He is...

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

African American man with two white police officers

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An African American man being restrained by two white male police officers. The civilian's wrist is being held down by the first police officer, while...

Date Published
April-10-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

African American woman holding an umbrella

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African American woman holding an umbrella, walking near Central High School, looking over at the camera. She is wearing white pants and a striped...

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

Angled view of vandalized window at dry cleaners

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Angled view of vandalized window of a dry cleaners. In the middle of the window is a large hole with large shards of glass laying along the sidewalk...

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

Broken basement windows of Holy Name Church

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Broken basement windows at Holy Name Church; close-up view.

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

Broken basement windows of Holy Name Church

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Broken basement windows at Holy Name Church.

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

Broken basement windows of Holy Name Church

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Broken basement windows at Holy Name Church; close-up view.

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

Broken basement windows of Holy Name Church

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Broken basement windows at Holy Name Church; close-up view.

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

Bruce R. Watkins leads crowd marching on I-70

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Close-up of crowd (majority African Americans with some white people as well) marching west on I-70. In the center of the photo is Bruce R. Watkins...

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

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  • (-) 1968 Riot Collection (141)

Types

  • photographs (141)

Genres

  • Snapshots (141)
  • Aerial views (14)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (141)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (141)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (138)
  • Crowds (90)
  • Demonstrations (89)
  • Police (64)
  • Police brutality (36)
  • African American men (32)
  • Men, White (32)
  • Tear gas (27)
  • African American women (21)
  • African American students (14)
  • Civil rights demonstrations (11)
  • City halls (10)
  • Students (6)
  • Clergy (5)
  • Church buildings (4)
  • Service stations (4)
  • Vandalism (4)
  • African American children (3)
  • Journalists (3)
  • Roads (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • African Americans (2)
  • Courthouses (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • African American high school students (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Firearms (1)
  • Gas masks (1)
  • Gesture (1)
  • Helping behavior (1)
  • High school buildings (1)
  • Lost architecture (1)
  • Police vehicles (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Tear gas munitions (1)
  • Truncheons (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (140)
  • 12th Street (24)
  • Parade Park (23)
  • Linwood Boulevard (12)
  • Paseo Boulevard (11)
  • Oak Street (7)
  • Vine Street (4)
  • Interstate 70 (3)
  • Locust Street (3)
  • Flora Street (2)
  • Truman Road (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 (129)
  • 1968-04-10 (10)
  • 1968-04-010 (1)
  • 1968-04-11 (1)

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