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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: 7 x 9 1/2 in. (17.8 x 24.1 cm)
Accession Number 2025.266
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
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
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
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
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 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
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
Image Not Available for Massed Marchers at Memorial: From a helicopter, this is the way the March on Washington demonstrators looked today during ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. Thousands jammed the area after a sign-carrying parade from the Washington Monument grounds, August 28, 1963
Massed Marchers at Memorial: From a helicopter, this is the way the March on Washington demonstrators looked today during ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. Thousands jammed the area after a sign-carrying parade from the Washington Monument grounds, August 28, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Image Not Available for Freedom Marchers in Washington: An estimated 200,000 marched upon Washington earlier this week in a major demonstration asking for Civic Freedoms for all. A large section of the crowd, which came from all parts of the USA, consisted of Negroes. Photo shows a section of the large crowd which gathered in the United States capital for the demonstration, August 31, 1963
Freedom Marchers in Washington: An estimated 200,000 marched upon Washington earlier this week in a major demonstration asking for Civic Freedoms for all. A large section of the crowd, which came from all parts of the USA, consisted of Negroes. Photo shows a section of the large crowd which gathered in the United States capital for the demonstration, August 31, 1963
Unknown
1963
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
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 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
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 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