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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 raising his fist in front of the Jackson County Courthouse

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Man raising his fist in the crowd on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse; blurred photo.

Date Published
May-01-1969
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

Man speaking into microphone at the Jackson County Courthouse

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Man speaking into a microphone and Black Panther members with raised fists behind him at the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse.

Date Published
May-01-1969
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

Person speaks into the microphone on Grand Boulevard

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A person wearing a beret man stands in the center of the crowd on Grand Boulevard and speaks into a microphone; light photo.

Date Published
May-01-1969
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Photo of Lincoln High School

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Photograph taken outside Lincoln High School; obscured by sun glare.

Date Published
April-10-1968
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 and students at Lincoln High School

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Police and students standing together, surrounded by cars, outside of Lincoln High School.

Date Published
April-10-1968
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 car arriving at the Jackson County Courthouse

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Photo of a police car arriving at the Jackson County Courthouse; light photo.

Date Published
May-01-1969
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

Police form a blockade behind protestors at City Hall

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Police form a blockade behind the protestors outside City Hall. Line of policeman stand in the back of the crowd, while the rest of the crowd move...

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

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  • (-) 1968 Riot Collection (229)

Types

  • photographs (229)

Genres

  • Snapshots (229)
  • Black & white photographs (141)
  • Color photographs (88)
  • Slides (88)
  • Transparencies (88)
  • Aerial views (15)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (229)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (226)
  • Demonstrations (156)
  • Crowds (144)
  • Police (88)
  • African American men (59)
  • Men, White (53)
  • Police brutality (40)
  • African American women (31)
  • Tear gas (31)
  • African American students (14)
  • City halls (11)
  • Civil rights demonstrations (11)
  • Students (9)
  • Clergy (6)
  • African American children (5)
  • Signs and signboards (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Church buildings (4)
  • Service stations (4)
  • Vandalism (4)
  • Boys (3)
  • Journalists (3)
  • Roads (3)
  • African Americans (2)
  • Courthouses (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • High school buildings (2)
  • Soldiers (2)
  • African American high school students (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Firearms (1)
  • Gas masks (1)
  • Gesture (1)
  • Helping behavior (1)
  • Lost architecture (1)
  • Motorcycle police (1)
  • Police vehicles (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Tear gas munitions (1)
  • Truncheons (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (228)
  • Parade Park (31)
  • 12th Street (25)
  • Grand Boulevard (20)
  • Paseo Boulevard (15)
  • Linwood Boulevard (12)
  • Oak Street (7)
  • 17th Terrace (6)
  • Vine Street (5)
  • Truman Road (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)
  • 1969-05-01 (44)
  • 1968-04-10 (23)
  • 1968-04-010 (1)
  • 1968-04-11 (1)

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