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DimensionsOverall: 6 x 9 1/2 in. (15.2 x 24.1 cm)
Accession Number 2024.241
Classificationsphotograph
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Two looters (left photo) comes out of store with their booty but one of them drops his (right) when spotted by police April 5. Conditions became so disorderly in the nation's capital that President Johnson was forced to call out Federal troops, Washington, April 5, 1968
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1968
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
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1978
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Tours "Battle Front": General Ralph E. Haines Jr. the Army's Vice chief of staff and commander of troops in Washington, views military installations yesterday from a bus tour with the capital city's Mayor Walter Washington to quell violence following the death of Dr. Martin Luthe rKing Jr. Troops are still in the city although there hasn't been serious trouble since Saturday night, April 12, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
On Guard at Fire: A District of Columbia policeman stands guard as firemen fight a blaze in auto parts store in Negro section of Northwest Washington late last night, the area still scarred by last April's riots. Rock-throwing, arson and looting broke out following the shooting of a Negro man by a white policeman, Washington D.C., October 8, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Revenge Riots Sweep America: President Johnson called federal troops into the ntaion's capital yesterday to restore peace to this frightened city after a day of arson, looting and violence in the wake of the slaying of Negro civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King. Here, a trooper stands gaurd in the street as another (left) patrols a completely demolished building. Negroes in at least 20 cities demonstrated their anger in violence at the death of Dr. King, April 6, 1968
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1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sack Time: Some of the thousands of soldiers ordered into Washington to put down looting and arson catch some rest in an automatic laundry shop on H Street in the northeast section of the city today, April 6, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Scuffle Near the High Court: police move in to disperse a group of anti-war protesters near the Supreme Court Building in Washington today after a pacifist group of 11 women stages a burning of draft cards. The burning was held to protest last May's Supreme Court decision upholding the illegality of the burning or mutilating of draft cards, July 17, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
White, Negro Pupils Get Instructions: H. B. Sanders, right, gives instructions to members of a 10th grade class at McKinley Technical High School as the new District of Columbia public school term opens today. White and negro pupils are members of the class. heretofore public schools in the nation's capital were segregated. A school official said some 400 Negroes have enrolled in previously all-white McKinley High, one of the city's larger schools, September 13, 1954
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1954
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
On the Move: Supporters of the Poor People' Campaign line both sides of the Reflecting Pool and fill the foreground at the Lincoln Memorial today at the start of Solidarity Day ceremonies. The demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument, in background, and moved in an orderly but disorganized fashion to the Memorial, June 19, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Vance Muse Testifies at Lobby Probe: Vance Muse, of Texas, manager of the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, was photographed as he testified before the Senate Lobby Investigation, here, today. Mr. Muse revealed the names of some of the contributors to the Southern Committee, and admitted that he had caused pictures of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "entering a Negro meeting with two Negro escorts" to be distributed through the South, Washington DC, April 15, 1936
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1936