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Anti-war demonstrators use benches as barricades during battle with police at the Grant Park bandshell. The battle broke out as thousands of demonstrators gathered in the park for a march on the Democratic National convention, Chicago
Anti-war demonstrators use benches as barricades d...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

August 28, 1968

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Anti-war demonstrators use handkerchiefs to cover their faces from blinding tear gas fired at their ranks by National Guardsmen at Michigan and 19th Streets. The Guardsmen used gas to break up a throng of some 5,000 demonstrators attempting to march on the International Amphitheatre, Chicago
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Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

August 29, 1968

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Three clergymen experiencing a weekend of poverty in Chicago took part in a rally at Grant park before a civil rights protest march. They were the Reverends John Braun (second from left), Elkhard, Indiana, of the Mennonite church; David Hall (center), South Norwalk, Connecticut, and John Fischer (second from right), Minneapolis, both of the United Church of Christ. Mr. Fischer wore a sweatband around his forehead
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Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

June 14, 1965

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Linked armed demonstrators begin singing songs after they broke police barricades outside the site of the House Un-American activities hearings. About 30 unruly demonstrators stormed the barricades. Paint covers the demonstrators face thrown by an unidentified by-stander, Chicago
Linked armed demonstrators begin singing songs aft...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

May 27, 1965

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Integrationists defying a threat of prosecution threw up picket lines in their second classroom boycott in four months. Pickets, including sign carrying students are shown outside Hyde Park High School, Chicago. There were no arrests during first hours of "Freedom Day" boycott, but authorities warned that anyone who blocked a child from going to school would be prosecuted
Integrationists defying a threat of prosecution th...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

February 25, 1964

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Rights Marchers Flanked by Police Guard: With a single file of police walking along each side, a long procession of civil rights marchers proceed along sidewalk of Pulaski Road during demonstration against real estate practices Friday, Chicago
Rights Marchers Flanked by Police Guard: With a si...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

August 13, 1966

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Civil Rights March in Cicero: Civil rights march is conducted in Cicero today in close quarters on Cicero Avenue, main street of this suburb of Chicago. At left, the police; then National Guardsmen with bayonets on rifles, then marchers
Civil Rights March in Cicero: Civil rights march i...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

September 4, 1966

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Happy Demonstrator: One of the demonstrators in protests in East St. Louis, Illinois that erupted into violence almost seems happy as an East St. Louis policeman lifts him from the floor prior to his arrest. The incidents started when several arrested pickets failed to respond to officers requests to enter police headquarters
Happy Demonstrator: One of the demonstrators in pr...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

August 15, 1963

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Walk Around: Peoria Negros staged a walk around in the Central Illinois Light Company, retail store today seeking prices and information about refrigerators, stoves and various electric appliances. The walk around follows a week of picketing and sit ins which resulted in the jailing 13 persons. Demonstration was orderly, Peoria, Illinois
Walk Around: Peoria Negros staged a walk around in...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

July 13, 1963

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Chicago: This part of a crowd of 3,000 men, women, and children witness the burning of a negro' family's furniture along side of an apartment building in Cicero, Illinois, after teenager broke into the flat and hurled the furniture into the street July 11. Other flats in the building, occupied by negroes, were also torn up
Chicago: This part of a crowd of 3,000 men, women,...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

July 12, 1951

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A protestor faints, Selma, Alabama
A protestor faints, Selma, Alabama

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

March 16, 1965

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Police said there was no other way to make arrests: police officer dragging marcher by the feet during "Bloody Sunday", Selma
Police said there was no other way to make arrests...

Tommy Giles active mid-20th century

March 7, 1965

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