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DimensionsOverall: 7 x 8 5/8 in. (17.8 x 21.9 cm)
Accession Number 2024.236
Classificationsphotograph
Muddy Inspection: Senator Jacob Javits, Republican-New York, today toured Resurrection City which has been left ankle deep in mud after two days of steady rain, May 29, 1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Two youths use a board and mop handles to pole through water, here, left in Resurrection City after a heavy rain 6/12. The city has been plagued with rain since its erection, Washington DC, June 13, 1968
Two youths use a board and mop handles to pole through water, here, left in Resurrection City after a heavy rain 6/12. The city has been plagued with rain since its erection, Washington DC, June 13, 1968
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1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Putting the Commission in Business: President Johnson today signs an executive order spelling out the authority of his special Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Flanking him are Governor Otto Kerner, left, of Illinois, the chairman of the group, and Mayor John Lindsay of New York, vice chairman. Behind are some of the commission members. From left: Representative William McCulloch, Republican-Ohio; Senator Fred Harris, Democrat-Oklahoma; Vice President Humphrey; Katherine Graham Peden, Kentucky commerce commissioner; Police Chief Herbert Jenkins of Atlanta, Georgia; and Senator Edward Brooke, Republican-Massachusetts, July 29, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Police Clear Resurrection City: Police search two residents of Resurrection City, Poor People's Campaign camp, today as they took possession of the area. About 50 arrests were made at the camp, where the residents had been told they could no longer stay on public land. At the Capitol, other police arrested the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, the campaign leader, Washington DC, June 24, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
President Johnson ordered some 9,500 Army and National Guard troops to restore order during the wake of riotous looting, burning, and terrorizing by roving bands of Negro youths which began after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis. For two days the capital was the scene of violent unrest as pillaging and arson swept through the predominantly negro sections of the city across the downtown shopping area within two blocks of the White House... May 14, 1968
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1968
Image Not Available for Flames in Resurrection City: One of the plywood and plastic shacks in Resurrection City goes up in flames today while the encampment of the Poor People's Campaign was being evacuated. Two of the huts were destroyed by fires of unknown origin. Washington, DC, June 24, 1968
Flames in Resurrection City: One of the plywood and plastic shacks in Resurrection City goes up in flames today while the encampment of the Poor People's Campaign was being evacuated. Two of the huts were destroyed by fires of unknown origin. Washington, DC, June 24, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Image Not Available for Forcibly Evicted: Police lift one of the residents of Resurrection City to carry her from the area which was cleared after expiration of the permit to occupy the land in Washington, June 24, 1968. Police Chief John Layton said about 80 arrests, including the leaders of the Poor People's Campaign, were made during the clearing operation, Washington DC, June 25, 1968
Forcibly Evicted: Police lift one of the residents of Resurrection City to carry her from the area which was cleared after expiration of the permit to occupy the land in Washington, June 24, 1968. Police Chief John Layton said about 80 arrests, including the leaders of the Poor People's Campaign, were made during the clearing operation, Washington DC, June 25, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sleep in Any Language: A combat interpreter with the U.S. Marine unit southwest of Da Nang catches a quick catnap during an all-day sweep through the area. Like many troopers, he has learned to catch his sleep when he can—a quick catnap here and there to keep him going. The operation was conducted against reported North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units but contact was light, November 12, 1968
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
GI’s Take Koje Today: Businesslike GI’s, well-armed for their day’s work, march along a road on Koje Island with a large North Korean flag which they had just taken from prisoner-of-war compound 85. The enemy banner is one of the many symbols of defiance ordered removed the troublesome prisoner enclosures on the South Korean island, site of the largest Allied prisoner concentration, June 9, 1952
1952
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
Image Not Available for Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
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1955
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Handy Helpers: Members of the 1st Air Cavalry Division pass a child from hand to hand across a rain swollen stream near Xuan Que as they helped South Vietnamese refugees move to a resettlement camp from their village last week. The villagers volunteered to leave the area which had become a battleground between U.S. and North Vietnamese soldiers. The village was destroyed after the villagers left to deny sanctuary to the enemy, January 7, 1968
1968