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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 on Vine Street at Flora Avenue and Paseo Boulevard

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Close-up aerial view of crowd marching down the center of Vine Street at Flora Avenue and Paseo Boulevard. A few individuals are looking up at the...

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

Aerial view of crowd on Vine Street at Flora Avenue and Paseo Boulevard

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

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 holding a sign on Grand Boulevard

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An African American man standing on the sidewalk with a sign that reads "KPRS Employees Protest [???] Low Wages" on Grand Boulevard; light photo.

Date Published
May-01-1969
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 speaking into microphone at Grand Boulevard

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An African American man is standing in the center of the photo wearing a brown suit and speaking into a microphone on Grand Boulevard; partially...

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

African American man speaking into microphone on Grand Boulevard

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An African American man wearing a white polo shirt is speaking into a microphone on Grand Boulevard in the center of the photo; light photo.

Date Published
May-01-1969
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

Black Panther members and others with crowd in front of the Jackson County Courthouse

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Black Panther members are joined by a large group of white men and women lined up behind them on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse. Four...

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

Black Panther members on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse

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Black Panther members standing with the crowd on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse. Two men to the left of the photo are raising their fists...

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

Black Panther members on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse

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Black Panther memebers with crowd on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse; a man in the center of the photo has his hand raised to his face.

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

Black Panther members on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse

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Black Panther members standing with the crowd on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse.

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

Black Panther members with crowd in front of the Jackson County Courthouse

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Black Panther members with crowd standing on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse. One man is holding a white flag that reads "Free Huey"...

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

Black Panther members with crowd in front of the Jackson County Courthouse

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Black Panther members with crowd on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse; dark photo.

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

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  • 1961-1970

Member of

  • 1968 Riot Collection (156)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (3)
  • Lucile Bluford Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (160)

Genres

  • Snapshots (159)
  • Black & white photographs (93)
  • Color photographs (67)
  • Slides (67)
  • Transparencies (67)
  • Aerial views (11)
  • Gelatin silver prints (4)
  • Group portraits (3)
  • Portrait photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1961-1970 (160)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (156)
  • Crowds (128)
  • Police (49)
  • African American men (46)
  • Men, White (31)
  • Police brutality (29)
  • African American women (28)
  • Tear gas (23)
  • African American students (14)
  • City halls (11)
  • Civil rights demonstrations (11)
  • Students (8)
  • Clergy (6)
  • Signs and signboards (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Journalists (3)
  • Roads (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Politicians (2)
  • African Americans (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Civil rights (1)
  • Courthouses (1)
  • Firearms (1)
  • Gesture (1)
  • Helping behavior (1)
  • Motorcycle police (1)
  • Service stations (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Tear gas munitions (1)
  • Truncheons (1)
  • (-) Demonstrations (160)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (157)
  • Parade Park (21)
  • 12th Street (19)
  • Grand Boulevard (18)
  • Paseo Boulevard (8)
  • Oak Street (7)
  • 17th Terrace (6)
  • Truman Road (4)
  • Vine Street (4)
  • Interstate 70 (3)
  • Flora Avenue (2)
  • Flora Street (2)
  • Linwood Boulevard (2)
  • Locust Street (2)
  • 24th Street (1)
  • Loose Park (1)
  • McGee Street (1)

Subjects, People

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

Date Published

  • 1968-04-09 (115)
  • 1969-05-01 (41)
  • 1964-06-15 (1)
  • 1966-04-01 (1)
  • 1969-09-22 (1)
  • 1970-04-01 (1)

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