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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

Leon Jordan with police trainees

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Leon Jordan with eleven police trainees. Jordan is standing sixth from left. All the men are wearing light colored uniforms and standing in front of a...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with police trainees

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Leon Jordan with eleven police trainees. Jordan is standing sixth from left. All the men are wearing light colored uniforms and standing in front of a...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with police trainees

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Leon Jordan with eleven police trainees. Jordan is standing sixth from left. All the men are wearing light colored uniforms and standing in front of a...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with police trainees

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Leon Jordan with eleven police trainees. Jordan is standing sixth from left. All the men are wearing light colored uniforms and standing in front of a...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Newly trained policemen

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A group of newly trained Liberian policemen at a ceremony. The men are standing in an open field wearing formal uniforms.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan 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

Palace guard and bobby

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A Royal guard standing on duty being looked at by a bobby.

Date Published
December-30-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton 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 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

Police in the street in front of a crowd

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Police standing in the street. The man on the far right side of the frame is addressing one officer. A crowd of men watch from the lawn of Lincoln...

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

Police line in front of City Hall

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Line of police officers standing directly in front of City Hall holding truncheons. In front of the line of officers is a group of young African...

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

Police motorcycle escort during the move

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Police motorcycle escort (white male) for a Children's Mercy Hospital van while moving into the new building. A striped awning has been set up to the...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Police officers and a crowd of people in front of City Hall

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Group of police officers lining up on Oak St. outside City Hall. A crowd has gathered on sidewalks and in the street in front of the officers. Bottom...

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

Police officers and civilians standing in street and in sidewalk in front of City Hall

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Group of police officers are lining up in the street in the left portion of the photo. Civilians are lining up in the street and on the sidewalks in...

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

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Member of

  • 1968 Riot Collection (88)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (7)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (6)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (4)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (3)
  • Betty Crow Collection (2)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (112)

Genres

  • Snapshots (112)
  • Black & white photographs (82)
  • Color photographs (30)
  • Slides (24)
  • Transparencies (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (18)
  • Group portraits (16)
  • Portrait photographs (13)
  • Cityscape photographs (4)
  • Aerial views (3)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (95)
  • 1941-1950 (7)
  • 1951-1960 (7)
  • 1981-1990 (3)
  • 1991-2000 (3)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (88)
  • Demonstrations (49)
  • Men, White (47)
  • Crowds (43)
  • Police brutality (26)
  • Tear gas (21)
  • African American men (19)
  • African American women (6)
  • City halls (5)
  • Streets (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Clergy (4)
  • Buildings (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • German shepherd dog (3)
  • Journalists (3)
  • Motorcycle police (3)
  • Police dogs (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • Automobiles (2)
  • Boys (2)
  • Children--Hospital care (2)
  • Gay men (2)
  • Gay police officers (2)
  • Hospital patients (2)
  • Liberians (2)
  • Men (2)
  • Pedestrians (2)
  • Police--U.S. states--Uniforms (2)
  • School children (2)
  • Students (2)
  • Tourists (2)
  • African American high school students (1)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Ambulances (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Courthouses (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Firearms (1)
  • Flags--Political aspects (1)
  • Flags--Social aspects (1)
  • Gas masks (1)
  • Gates (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Guards troops (1)
  • Helmets (1)
  • Homophobia (1)
  • Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity (1)
  • Hospital patients--Escort services (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Kitchen appliances (1)
  • Kitchen cabinets (1)
  • Kitchens (1)
  • Men's underwear (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Motorcycles (1)
  • Palaces (1)
  • Police vehicles (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Radio personalities (1)
  • Service stations (1)
  • Shelving (Furniture) (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Stairs (1)
  • T-shirts--Social aspects (1)
  • Tear gas munitions (1)
  • Television camera operators (1)
  • Tents (1)
  • Toddlers (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Truncheons (1)
  • Vandalism (1)
  • Vans (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • (-) Police (112)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ activists (2)
  • LGBTQ+ people (2)
  • White gay men (2)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (2)
  • Intolerance towards LGBTQ+ people (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (92)
  • 12th Street (18)
  • Linwood Boulevard (8)
  • Monrovia (Liberia) (7)
  • Paseo Boulevard (7)
  • Oak Street (6)
  • Parade Park (6)
  • 17th Terrace (4)
  • Locust Street (3)
  • Oaxaca (Mexico : State) (2)
  • Grand Avenue (1)
  • London (England) (1)
  • Malmédy (Belgium) (1)
  • Vine Street (1)
  • Washington (D.C.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Fly, Father (5)
  • Warner, Father Ed (5)
  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (4)
  • Leslie, Ron (3)
  • Rivers Smith, Lena (3)
  • Todd, Bill (Gay rights activist) (2)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Jackson, Bubba (1)
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 (1)

Events

  • Long Beach Jazz Festival (1)
  • National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1)

Date Published

  • 1968-04-09 (63)
  • 1968-04-10 (22)
  • 1947 (7)
  • 1952 (7)
  • 1964-12-30 (3)
  • 1967-08-06 (3)
  • 1969-05-01 (2)
  • 1970-12-17 (2)
  • 1989-06-30 (2)
  • 1993-04 (2)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1964-06-15 (1)
  • 1968-04-010 (1)
  • 1968-05-09 (1)
  • 1987-10-11 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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