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DimensionsOverall: 6 x 9 5/8 in. (15.2 x 24.4 cm)
Accession Number 2024.238
Classificationsphotograph
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
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
Witness Table Huddle: The Reverend Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and leader of the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, leans over today at the witness table for a whispered word with Mrs. Alberta Scott of Baltimore, Maryland, one of the participants in the campaign. They appeared before a Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcommittee during hearings on emergency employment legislation, Washington DC, April 30, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
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
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
Reverend Ralph Abernathy and members of his Poor People's Campaign, who sought unsuccessfully to speak with Agriculture Secretary Hardin at the Agriculture Department spoke to an "empty chair" (which they brought with them and placed on the sidewalk outside the Department) when the Cabinet member was not available. Here, after the "conference," Abernathy and members of group file past the empty chair to "shake hands" with the absent Secretary, Washington D.C., May 14, 1969
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1969
Image Not Available for Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
1982
Image Not Available for Leads Poor Campaign: Civil rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy wipes his face during his appearance before a Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcommittee in Washington, April 20, 1968. Abernathy is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and successor to the assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Washington D.C., April 30, 1968
Leads Poor Campaign: Civil rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy wipes his face during his appearance before a Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcommittee in Washington, April 20, 1968. Abernathy is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and successor to the assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Washington D.C., April 30, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Callers at the Capitol: Civil rights leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy, right, and A.D. King, brother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, are shown on the steps of the Capitol discussing the second day of the Poor People's March. Dr. King was assassinated April 4, April 30, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Israeli troops relax along the Green Line near an infirmary
1982
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
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