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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 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

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 on sidewalk as crowd disperses

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Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St.; Police in the foreground are wearing gas masks and one is armed with a pistol, walking onto the sidewalk.

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

Police standing in line in gas masks, visibly armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns

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Close up of white male police officers standing in line in gas masks, visibly armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns outside City Hall. The angle...

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

Police throw tear gas into Lincoln High School

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View from the outside of Lincoln High School after police throw tear gas into the building.

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

Police using tear gas on students outside of Lincoln High School

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Police using tear gas on students outside of Lincoln High School; clouds of tear gas can be seen against the building; blurred photo.

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

Police with gas masks and armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns outside City Hall

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Line of Police standing in the street outside City Hall. Some of the officers are wearing gas masks and armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns...

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

Police with gas masks armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns outside City Hall

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Group of white male police officers standing in a line on the street outside City Hall. All of the officers are wearing gas masks and are armed with...

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

Policemen stand in front of Courthouse

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Police standing in front of Courthouse while clouds of tear gas fill 12th Street.

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

Two men run down 12th Street in a cloud of tear gas

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Two unidentified African American men run down 12th Street in a cloud of tear gas.

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

View from behind of the crowd running from tear gas at City Hall

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View from behind of the crowd running from tear gas down 12th St.; Police in the foreground are wearing gas masks and holding batons in their hands...

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

View from behind the crowd running from tear gas at City Hall

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View from behind of the crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Father Fly possibly in center-right of photo.

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

White policemen detaining an African American man at Lincoln High School

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Two white policemen detaining an African American man outside Lincoln High School. The officer to the left of the detainee in the photo is using both...

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

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  • 1968 Riot Collection (40)

Types

  • photographs (40)

Genres

  • Snapshots (40)
  • Black & white photographs (36)
  • Aerial views (6)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Slides (4)
  • Transparencies (4)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (40)

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements (40)
  • Demonstrations (29)
  • Tear gas (27)
  • Police (26)
  • Crowds (18)
  • 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 (40)

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 (35)
  • 1968-04-10 (5)

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