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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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Farm Workers Leader On Boycott Work: Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers, stands beside the bed in his union headquarters in Delano, California, as if work goes on for the second season of what Chavez and his workers hope will become a nationwide consumer boycott of California table grapes. Chavez is convalescing from a spinal bone disease and Kidney ailment, Delano, California
Farm Workers Leader On Boycott Work: Cesar Chavez,...

George Brich active mid-20th century

June 2, 1969

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Apparently the Center of Trouble: Smoke pours from an area about three miles west of downtown Chicago today after fire swept through a large area in a predominantly Negro neighborhood. Looting has also been reported in the area
Apparently the Center of Trouble: Smoke pours from...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

April 5, 1968

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Flames Sweep Building: On Chicago's west side Friday, fire broke out in Madison Street dwellings and stores. By late afternoon fires and looting had spread west for about two miles
Flames Sweep Building: On Chicago's west side Frid...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

April 6, 1968

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Merit Employee: Martha R. Buford, 5803 S. Michigan, secretary in the salary administration division of Inland Steel Company, is merit employee of the week. Inland is one of more than 200 Chicago area employer members of the Chicago Merit Employment Committee. Members have reaffirmed their policies of hiring and promoting solely on merit, Chicago
Merit Employee: Martha R. Buford, 5803 S. Michigan...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

February 1966

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Tear gas in small containers was used by the Cook county sheriff's department to break up a crowd of unruly students at Provisco East high school Friday in Maywood, a suburb of Chicago. The troubles tarted with a feud between white and Negro students in the school's cafeteria and spread outdoors
Tear gas in small containers was used by the Cook ...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

October 21, 1967

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Dogs held the crowd at bay, but not before one man, identified as Juan Millan, 20 (slumped over), said he was bitten. The disorders broke out in a Latin American neighborhood in Chicago after a man was shot in the leg when a policeman tried to break a gang fight in an alley
Dogs held the crowd at bay, but not before one man...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

1960s

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Leading march on Capitol: The United Front of Cairo was to march on the Capitol in Springfield today, according to Charles Koen, director, to confront Governor Richard Ogilvie on the tense racial situation in Ciaro. Charles Koen, above, spoke to a rally in East St. Louis Thursday, where the group of 100 people from Ciaro stopped on the way to Springfield, Illinois
Leading march on Capitol: The United Front of Cair...

Unknown maker American, active 20th cent...

July 11, 1969

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Aftermath of Misdirected Bombs: a Cambodian girl salvaged a board from her home in Neak Luong, Cambodia, southwest of the capitol of Phnom Penh. The village was hit by a misdirected bomb attack by United States jets. More than 130 were killed
Aftermath of Misdirected Bombs: a Cambodian girl s...

Unkown maker American, 20th century

August 1973

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March On Mayor Daley's House: Comedian Dick Gregory directs civil rights marchers to take a left turn on their way to Mayor Richard Daley's neighborhood
March On Mayor Daley's House: Comedian Dick Gregor...

Unkown maker American, 20th century

August 1965

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Anti-Willis Protest: Before march, police pleaded with demonstrators to get out of street at Columbus Dr. and Balbo. When they refused, the mass arrests began
Anti-Willis Protest: Before march, police pleaded ...

Unkown maker American, 20th century

June 11, 1965

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