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Label Text 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: 6 1/4 x 8 3/8 in. (15.9 x 21.3 cm)
Accession Number 2025.244
Classificationsphotograph
Slums...And The Capitol: The domed top of the United States Capitol building may be seen almost within a stone's throw of this dingy and diplidated slum district in Washington D.C. The capitol is pushing a new drive to root out the alley slums, of which is typical, and which have been a part of Washington since the civil war, December 11, 1938
Image Not Available for Slums...And The Capitol: The domed top of the United States Capitol building may be seen almost within a stone's throw of this dingy and diplidated slum district in Washington D.C. The capitol is pushing a new drive to root out the alley slums, of which is typical, and which have been a part of Washington since the civil war, December 11, 1938
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Smoke Screen: Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat-New York, blows a cloud a cigar smoke today at Capitol Hill news conference in Washington. Powell, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, announced a victory in his campaign to increase the participation of the poor in the anti poverty programs. In return for pledges on that point he promised fast action on a bill, which he had been holding up, to extend and expand the operation, May 12, 1965
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina) points to clock in Capitol during a break in his one-man talkathon against the Civil Rights Bill. A colleague yielded to give to give Thurmond a short break. He threatened to talk all night, Washington D.C., August 29, 1957
Unknown
1957
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
March for Victory: marchers demonstrating for a military victory in Vietnam walked Saturday from the Capitol to a rally at the Washington Monument, Washington DC, October 3, 1970
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1970
Image Not Available for The Nation's Capitol, 1978: Ten Years after it was reduced to rubble in a four-day frenzy of fire-bombing and looting, triggered by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Washington's 7th Street NW is an ash-can existence for winos. For black ghetto dwellers in Washington, the weed-filled lots and fire-scarred buildings silently mock the post-riot talk of rebuilding, April, 1978
The Nation's Capitol, 1978: Ten Years after it was reduced to rubble in a four-day frenzy of fire-bombing and looting, triggered by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Washington's 7th Street NW is an ash-can existence for winos. For black ghetto dwellers in Washington, the weed-filled lots and fire-scarred buildings silently mock the post-riot talk of rebuilding, April, 1978
Unknown
1978
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Troops wearing gas masks move along a Washington street in a predominantly Negro area. Some 4,000 Army and National Guardsmen were moved into the nation's capitol following widespread burning and looting, Washington, April 6, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Image Not Available for Public schools of Washington opened their doors today to 98,000 school children on a partially non-segregated basis to begin the process of integration, which is expected to be completed within a year. At Thompson Elementary school formerly for white children only a group of pupils studies a poster urging all to work together. Front left to right: Saundra Green, 11; Fred Austin, 11; Demos Georganos, 11, and Athy Georganos, 8. Rear left to right: Caroal Canady, 10 and her sister Shirley, 8, September 13, 1954
Public schools of Washington opened their doors today to 98,000 school children on a partially non-segregated basis to begin the process of integration, which is expected to be completed within a year. At Thompson Elementary school formerly for white children only a group of pupils studies a poster urging all to work together. Front left to right: Saundra Green, 11; Fred Austin, 11; Demos Georganos, 11, and Athy Georganos, 8. Rear left to right: Caroal Canady, 10 and her sister Shirley, 8, September 13, 1954
Unknown
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, at the Capitol, Washington, March 4, 1861.
Winslow Homer
March 16, 1861
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Inaugural Procession at Washington Passing the Gate of the Capitol Grounds
Winslow Homer
March 16, 1861
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
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