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This image was taken by a photojournalist working under the employ of the Associated Press, a US news agency founded in 1846 and still in operation today. These photographers endeavored to take in-focus, direct, and straightforward illustrations that would clearly communicate important events with the American public. Documentary photography of social protest movements (and particularly police violence) played a major role in shaping public opinion in these years. 

 


DimensionsOverall: 7 x 8 1/2 in. (17.8 x 21.6 cm)
Accession Number 2025.224
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Protest War in Laos: demonstrators gather on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House today with a Viet Cong flag to protest the South Vietnamese incursion into Laos, Washington DC, February 10, 1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Meo Guerrilla and Son: This Meo guerrilla and his son in the village of Tin Bong which is located in a 5, 000-foot Valley in Laos. Meo guerrillas have fought the pathet Lao and North Vietnamese since 1955, March 1, 1971
Meo Guerrilla and Son: This Meo guerrilla and his son in the village of Tin Bong which is located in a 5, 000-foot Valley in Laos. Meo guerrillas have fought the pathet Lao and North Vietnamese since 1955, March 1, 1971
1971
Image Not Available for Under Police Surveillance: Members of the American Nazi Party carry out their own demonstration today under close police surveillance. The swastika-wearing marchers showed up at the White House about the time Negro demonstrators were scheduled to arrive. Police hustled off the Nazis to the next block up Pennsylvania Avenue where they were permitted to march in a tight circle, June 14, 1963
Under Police Surveillance: Members of the American Nazi Party carry out their own demonstration today under close police surveillance. The swastika-wearing marchers showed up at the White House about the time Negro demonstrators were scheduled to arrive. Police hustled off the Nazis to the next block up Pennsylvania Avenue where they were permitted to march in a tight circle, June 14, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Image Not Available for Several Hundred demonstrators marched on the Washington State Capitol Sunday in protest over treatment of Negroes in the South and the slaying of the Reverend James Reeb, Boston Unitarian minister, in Selma, Alabama last week. A letter from Governor Dan Evans was read to the throng. The governor decried the situation in the South, but warned against smugness in this state, saying much needs to be done, March 16, 1965
Several Hundred demonstrators marched on the Washington State Capitol Sunday in protest over treatment of Negroes in the South and the slaying of the Reverend James Reeb, Boston Unitarian minister, in Selma, Alabama last week. A letter from Governor Dan Evans was read to the throng. The governor decried the situation in the South, but warned against smugness in this state, saying much needs to be done, March 16, 1965
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
Image Not Available for Making an Adjustment: a ground crewman makes an adjustment to a rocket before installing it aboard a bomber making strikes over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea recently, on Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam, January 15, 1972
Making an Adjustment: a ground crewman makes an adjustment to a rocket before installing it aboard a bomber making strikes over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea recently, on Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam, January 15, 1972
1972
Image Not Available for House Hunting In Vietnam: A woman holds high a sheet of tin roofing from what was her house in the Tay Ninh area, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Her dwelling was one of more than a hundred which burned down during and after a Viet Cong rocket attack on the provincial capital. Many Tay Ninh residents, fearing a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese onslaught, have fled the town, January 1975
House Hunting In Vietnam: A woman holds high a sheet of tin roofing from what was her house in the Tay Ninh area, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Her dwelling was one of more than a hundred which burned down during and after a Viet Cong rocket attack on the provincial capital. Many Tay Ninh residents, fearing a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese onslaught, have fled the town, January 1975
1975
Image Not Available for Bishop Smallwood B. Williams (center), Washington representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads prayer for hundreds of Negro demonstrators who assembled across from the White House After the prayer meeting, the group marched to the Justice Department to protest racial discrimination in Washington, June 14, 1963
Bishop Smallwood B. Williams (center), Washington representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads prayer for hundreds of Negro demonstrators who assembled across from the White House After the prayer meeting, the group marched to the Justice Department to protest racial discrimination in Washington, June 14, 1963
Unknown
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Breaking Camp: Antiwar demonstrators, one dragging a tent, leave their Potomac Park campsite early Sunday after they and about 15,000 others were routed by police. Militant leaders say there will be more demonstrations Monday in Washington, May 3, 1971
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1971
Image Not Available for Thirty white and Negro parents and some children, conducted a shouting camp-in at the office of Attorney General John N. Mitchell to protest against any possible weakening of school desegregation guidelines. The demonstrators were from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina, July 1, 1969
Thirty white and Negro parents and some children, conducted a shouting camp-in at the office of Attorney General John N. Mitchell to protest against any possible weakening of school desegregation guidelines. The demonstrators were from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina, July 1, 1969
Unknown
1969
Image Not Available for Run and Fire Attack: a Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in Riceland’s in an area 15 miles west of Saigon. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction, April 4, 1965
Run and Fire Attack: a Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in Riceland’s in an area 15 miles west of Saigon. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction, April 4, 1965
1965
Image Not Available for Massed Marchers at Memorial: From a helicopter, this is the way the March on Washington demonstrators looked today during ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. Thousands jammed the area after a sign-carrying parade from the Washington Monument grounds, August 28, 1963
Massed Marchers at Memorial: From a helicopter, this is the way the March on Washington demonstrators looked today during ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. Thousands jammed the area after a sign-carrying parade from the Washington Monument grounds, August 28, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
On The Way Out: One of several persons ejected from the hearing room is carried bodily by officers today as the probe of anti-Vietnam war activities by the House-Un-American Activities Committee erupted with turmoil as loud challenges were shouted at the members of the committee. At least eight persons were carried or dragged from the room, Washington DC, August 16, 1966
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1966
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Of Mississippi Matters: Aaron Henry, Mississippi president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appears today before a House Judiciary Subcommittee. Henry a close associate of slain negro leader Medgar W. Evers, was called to testify on racial problems in Mississippi. The subcommittee is holding hearings on proposed civil rights legislation, Washington DC, June 13, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963