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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 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

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

Bystanders at the rear of crowd

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Group of bystanders at the rear of the crowd at Parade Park. In the center right of the photo, two African American women are smiling toward the...

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

Carl Elliott speaking during a campaign stop

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Carl Elliott speaking from the bed of a truck during a campaign stop. Uniformed personnel holding American flags are standing around the truck.

Date Published
April-01-1966
Member of
Richard W. Bolling 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 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 at Vine St. and Paseo Blvd looking up at camera

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Close-up aerial view of crowd marching down the center of Vine at Flora Ave. and Paseo. A few individuals are looking up at the camera with arms...

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

Crowd gathered at Parade Park

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Crowd amongst parked cars at Parade Park. The group of people have their backs turned to the camera, facing toward a group of speakers to the right of...

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

Crowd gathering at City Hall

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Crowd beginning to gather by City Hall, walking alongside the building.

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

Crowd gathering at City Hall

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Crowd gathering at City Hall; taken from a high floor in the Jackson County Courthouse. The majority of the crowd fills up the space right in front of...

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

Crowd gathering at doors of City Hall

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Crowd gathering at City Hall; taken from a high floor in the Jackson County Courthouse. The majority of the crowd fills up the space right in front of...

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

Crowd gathering at Oak street

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Crowd gathering at the corner of 12th and Oak St., outside City Hall.

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

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  • 1968 Riot Collection (89)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (4)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Lucile Bluford Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (95)

Genres

  • Snapshots (94)
  • Aerial views (10)
  • Gelatin silver prints (6)
  • Group portraits (5)
  • Portrait photographs (4)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (95)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (93)
  • 1941-1950 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (89)
  • Crowds (76)
  • Police (40)
  • Police brutality (29)
  • African American men (25)
  • Tear gas (23)
  • African American women (20)
  • Men, White (19)
  • African American students (14)
  • Civil rights demonstrations (11)
  • City halls (10)
  • Clergy (5)
  • Students (5)
  • Journalists (3)
  • Politicians (3)
  • Roads (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • African Americans (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Civil rights (1)
  • Courthouses (1)
  • Firearms (1)
  • Gesture (1)
  • Helping behavior (1)
  • Service stations (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Tear gas munitions (1)
  • Truncheons (1)
  • (-) Demonstrations (95)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (90)
  • 12th Street (19)
  • Parade Park (13)
  • Oak Street (7)
  • Paseo Boulevard (4)
  • Interstate 70 (3)
  • Vine Street (3)
  • Flora Street (2)
  • Linwood Boulevard (2)
  • Locust Street (2)
  • Truman Road (2)
  • 24th Street (1)
  • Loose Park (1)
  • McGee Street (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • Washington (D.C.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Fly, Father (7)
  • Warner, Father Ed (7)
  • Rivers Smith, Lena (3)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (2)
  • Elliott, Carl, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (1)
  • Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004 (1)
  • Watkins, Bruce R. (Bruce Riley), 1924-1980 (1)

Date Published

  • 1968-04-09 (89)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1964-06-15 (1)
  • 1966-04-01 (1)
  • 1969-09-22 (1)
  • 1970-04-01 (1)
  • 1973-06-14 (1)

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