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DimensionsSheet: 8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in. (20.5 x 25.2 cm)
Image: 6 9/16 x 8 in. (16.7 x 20.3 cm)
Accession Number 2024.217
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsCVL-DC-118 (verso l,l graphite) 2500 (verso l,l graphite) Racial Wash. D C. (verso l,c red ink) PASTE HERE USE ONLY AMOUNT OF PASTE NECESSARY (verso u,c printed ink)
MarksMAR 10 1965 (verso l,l green stamped ink) NOTICE This picture is the property of The Associated Press and may be used only for the purposes of reproduction when authorized by the owner. It may not be syndicated, rented or loaned, or used for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade. The following credit must be printed under each reproduction of this picture: ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO REG. U.S. PATENT OFFICE (verso u,c black stamped ink)
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ceremonial Laughter: Thurgood Marshall, who had just taken his oath as Solicitor General of the United States, breaks into laughter during his swearing-in ceremony in the White House cabinet room in Washington, D.C., Aug. 24, 1965. In attendance, from left, are: his wife Cecilia and their two sons, Thurgood Jr., 9, and John, 7; President Johnson; Associate Justice Hugo Black of the Supreme Court, who administered the oath; and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, August 24, 1965
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
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
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 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 Move In: Washington police march down the center of a street near the Justice Department in Washington as a large symbolic gavel burns. The gavel was carried to the scene by demonstrators, November 15, 1969
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1969
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
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
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 Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1951
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
Steps
Robert Natkin
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Willie on tenement steps, 1962
Ken Heyman
1965