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DimensionsImage: 8 15/16 x 7 1/16 in. (22.7 x 17.9 cm)
Accession Number 2024.215
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsCVL-DC-093 (verso u,l graphite) 2000 (verso u,l graphite) SRT (verso u,r graphite) O.ā W. Carmich[illegible] "167 (verso l,r ink)
MarksCOPYRIGHT BELGA Tél. 12.46.51-12.00.58 BRUXELLES 4 — BRUSSELS 4 R,daleScienos,6-8,Wetanaohapstr. (verso center blue stamped ink) WA-146. . . AFP PHOTO. . . . . . . . . WASHINGTON BUREAU. . . DEMONSTRATOR AT U.S. CAPITOL WASHINGTON, D.C. 8/7/67 . . ABOUT 75 DEMONSTRATORS FORCED THEIR WAS INTO THE GALLERYOF THE U.S. CAPITOL YESTERDAY AND WERE QUICKLY EJECTED BY THE CAPITOL POLICE. THREE OF THE DEMONSTRATORS WERE CLUBBED AND SIX MEN AND TWO WOMEN WERE [illegible] ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT. THE DEMONSTRATORS CAME TO PROTEST THE DEFEAT OF A BILL TO CONTROL RATS IN THE SLUMS. POLICE ARE SHOWN REMOVING ONE OF THE DEMONSTRATORS FROM THE CAPITOL GROUNDS. . . AFP PHOTO. . . . . . (verso l,c stamped ink on pasted paper)
Demonstrator at U.S. Capitol: About 75 demonstrators forced their way into the gallery of the United States Capitol yesterday and were quickly ejected by the Capitol police. Three of the demonstrators were clubbed and six men and two women were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. The demonstrators came to protest the defeat of a bill to control rats in the slums. Police are shown removing one of the demonstrators from the Capitol grounds, August 7, 1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Washington Demonstrators Arrested: police made their first arrests of participants in the Poor People's Campaign today for demonstrating outside the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Fifteen of approximately 200 marchers were charged with refusing to heed police orders to stop singing and praying outside the building. Here, police frisk several of the marchers before putting them in the paddy wagon. Those arrested were charged with the use of "loud, threatening or abusive language on capitol grounds.", May 23, 1968
Washington Demonstrators Arrested: police made their first arrests of participants in the Poor People's Campaign today for demonstrating outside the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Fifteen of approximately 200 marchers were charged with refusing to heed police orders to stop singing and praying outside the building. Here, police frisk several of the marchers before putting them in the paddy wagon. Those arrested were charged with the use of "loud, threatening or abusive language on capitol grounds.", May 23, 1968
Unknown
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Police Chase Demonstrators: Leaders of a group of residents from the neighborhood Harlem in New York, argue today with the police before being cleared from the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, while the cameras of representatives and senators have been sitting. The trouble started with a singing and clapping demonstration in the gallery of the House of Representatives shortly after the House adjourned for the day, August 7, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Protest at the White House: Demonstrators from various anti-Vietnam war groups who are in the capital carry signs, some protesting the probe of their activities by the White House Un-American Activities Committee, as they march along Pennsylvania Avenue today before the White House. Some members of the group earlier in the day were ejected forcibly from a meeting of the committee in Washington DC, August 16, 1966
William J. Smith
1966
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Peace demonstrators who have been keeping a 24-hour vigil at the Pentagon this week were placed under arrest. They were loaded on a bus to be taken to the United States District Court for Northern Virginia in nearby Alexandria. These two were arrested while climbing a wall into a flower bed in front of the building, May 12, 1967
Unknown
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
...As Demonstrators Marched: Participants in the "March Against Death" place the name cards of United States military killed in Vietnam in the coffins, left, at the foot of the Capitol tonight. The 40-hour procession from Arlington Cemetery is part of Vietnam Moratorium activity in Washington, November 13, 1969
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1969
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Into the Street: Police put a girl on the steps outside the Justice Department building as they haul demonstrators bodily away from the office of Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach tonight. Other tossed out are in foreground. An estimated 170 persons were taken from the building, March 9, 1965
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Police Take Control: District of Columbia police charge into a group of yippy antiwar demonstrators who attempted to block the parade route of President Richard Nixon in Washington today, January 20, 1969
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1969
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Groppi Arrested: Antiwar leader Father James Groppi is taken into custody by police today outside the Pentagon. He was among demonstrators who attempted to enter the building shortly after their legal permit to demonstrate expired. A number of others wre also arrested, May 22, 1972
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1972
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