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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 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 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

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

Camera shot of tear gas coming from Lincoln High School

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Camera shot of front of Lincoln High School from the inside of a car with the car door open. To the right of the photo there is a police officer...

Date Published
April-10-1968
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 of people running from tear gas with Father Fly

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Crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas; Father Fly stands at the center of the photo behind a child on a bicycle, and is looking back...

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

Crowd running from tear gas across from City Hall

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Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall, one person is riding a bicycle; Police in the foreground. Majority of the photo is...

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

Crowd running from tear gas across from City Hall

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Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police in the foreground, one holding a baton in his hands. In the center of the...

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

Crowd running from tear gas across from City Hall

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Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police in the foreground. Photo partially obscured by two police officers standing...

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

Crowd running from tear gas at City Hall with Fathers Warner and Fly

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Crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas; Fathers Fly and Ed Warner on left-hand side.

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

Crowd running in street and on sidewalk

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Crowd running down sidewalk and street from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police officer in the foreground carrying a baton in his...

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

Father Ed Warner being helped across lawn by three passersby

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Father Ed Warner on the lawn outside the courthouse, having been beaten by police, being helped by three passersby.

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

Father Ed Warner falls onto ground and is surrounded by police

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Father Ed Warner on the ground in the street filled with tear gas surrounded by police wearing gas masks and wielding batons, Father Fly is trying to...

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

Father Ed Warner falls onto ground and is surrounded by police

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Father Ed Warner gets taken down by group of police wearing gas masks and wielding batons and falls to the ground. Father Fly stands next to police.

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

Father Ed Warner taken down by police in a cloud of tear gas

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Father Ed Warner gets taken down by police in gas masks in a cloud of tear gas; photo mostly obscured by tear gas.

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

Group of people evacuate Lincoln High School

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Outside view of people evacuating Lincoln High School being directed by police with tear gas visible coming from the building. The officer in the...

Date Published
April-10-1968
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

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  • 1968 Riot Collection (39)

Types

  • photographs (39)

Genres

  • Snapshots (39)
  • Black & white photographs (35)
  • Aerial views (6)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Slides (4)
  • Transparencies (4)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (39)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (39)
  • Demonstrations (28)
  • Police (26)
  • Tear gas (26)
  • Crowds (17)
  • Men, White (9)
  • African American men (8)
  • Church buildings (4)
  • Clergy (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Journalists (3)
  • Courthouses (1)
  • Firearms (1)
  • Helping behavior (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Tear gas munitions (1)
  • Truncheons (1)
  • (-) Police brutality (39)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (39)
  • 12th Street (12)

Subjects, People

  • Fly, Father (6)
  • Warner, Father Ed (6)
  • Rivers Smith, Lena (3)

Date Published

  • 1968-04-09 (34)
  • 1968-04-10 (5)

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