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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
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  • 1968 Riot Collection (3)

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  • photographs (3)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Snapshots (3)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (3)

Subjects

  • African American women (3)
  • Civil rights movements (3)
  • Demonstrations (3)
  • Journalists (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Police (3)
  • Police brutality (3)
  • African American men (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)

Subjects, People

  • (-) Rivers Smith, Lena (3)

Date Published

  • 1968-04-09 (3)

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