5 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Times Square Invader Dragged Off

One telephoto entitled, "Times Square Invader Dragged Off," dated April 5, 1968, taken by Associated Press. Image depicts two policemen dragging a Black man on the ground by his arm and the neck of his coat. Attached to the image is a typed note that states the man was dragged away because the police believed he was part of the "window-smashing, store-looting crowd."

GLC09740.003

5 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Pleader for Nonviolence

One telephoto entitled, "Pleader for Nonviolence," dated April 5, 1968, taken by Associated Press. Image depicts Charles Evers walking past Jackson, Mississippi police officers. Wire transfer information states that Evers had asked for young Black people to cease rioting at Jackson State College.

GLC09740.004

6 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Chicago

One telephoto entitled, "Chicago" dated April 6, 1968 taken by United Press International. Depicts a white Chicago police officer pressing his knee onto the back of a Black woman. Wire transfer information states that he pursued her across the street.

GLC09740.022

6 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Baltimore

One telephoto entitled, "Baltimore" dated April 6, 1968 taken by United Press International. Depicts a crowd of Black people gathered near a local laundromat on fire in Baltimore, Maryland. Wire transfer information states that the fire took place on North Gay Street.

GLC09740.023

6 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Fiery Scene

One telephoto entitled, "Fiery Scene" dated April 6, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Depicts a crowd of people watching as firefighters extinguish a building that was on fire. Wire transfer information states that fires in Newark, New Jersey had led to 200 people left without homes.

GLC09740.024

6 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Arson Suspected

One telephoto entitled, "Arson Suspected" dated April 6, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Depicts smoke rising from buildings in Newark, New Jersey. Wire transfer information identifies the area as Newark's Central Ward; the number of people left without homes; and damage to the infrastructure.

GLC09740.025

10 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Killed By Snipers

Disclaimer: Image contains graphic violence. One telephoto entitled, "Killed by Snipers" dated April 10, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Image is of three National Guardsmen carrying a dead Black man by his feet and arms. Wire transfer information statest the young man had been shot by snipers.

GLC09740.075

10 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Youngstown, Ohio

One telephoto entitled, "Youngstown, Ohio" dated April 10, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Image is of Toderral McCaskey, a 13-year-old, being carried on a hospital gurney. Wire transfer information states that he had been shot in his hip by an unidentified individual. Also details other injuries incurred during riots.

GLC09740.076

10 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Trenton, N.J.

One telephoto entitled, "Trenton, N.J." dated April 10, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is of a man walking a dog in downton Trenton.

GLC09740.077

10 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Mo.

One telephoto entitled, "Kansas City, Mo.," dated April 10, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is an aerial view of a building on fire being extinguished in Kansas City, Missouri.

GLC09740.078

11 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Washington

One telephoto entitled, "Washington" dated April 11, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is of a copy of the Civil Act of 1968 signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Wire transfer information describes it as "a bill to designed to allow Negroes to find homes outside of the Nation's slums." This refers to the act expanding on previous acts prohibits housing discrimination.

GLC09740.079

11 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Attempts to Save Home

One telephoto entitled, "Attempts to Save Home" dated April 11, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is of two people's silhouettes watching a home on fire. Wire transfer information states that neighbors attempted to extingush the fire.

GLC09740.080

11 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Mo.

One telephoto entitled, "Kansas City, Mo.," dated April 11, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is of two police officers guarding a jewelry store.

GLC09740.081

1862-1943

Various

Header Record

Title: Collection of Civil War and World War II Letters [Decimalized .01-.12]

GLC10151

circa 1943

Pope, P.H., fl. 1943

V-Mail

Title: to Clarence W. Slocum

GLC10151.12

1962-1966

United Press International

Header Record

Title: [James Meredith photographs, 1962-1966][Decimalized .01-.05]

Collection of five photographs related to James Meredith taken by UPI telephoto dated 1962-1966. Pertains to Meredith's enrollment as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, his campus life and civil rights activism. One photograph in the collection shows head wounds from a shotgun he received during a protest.

GLC09824

3 August 1967

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Guard Leaves, But Sorrow Stays.

One press photo of National Guard leaving Detroit, Michigan. A woman in the image watches with a child. Wire transfer details that Tanya Lynn Blanding, 4 years old, was killed by police or National Guard's bullet. 200 people attended her funeral. On reverse side are stamps, "Racial/Detroit" and "Received Examiner Reference Library, August 3, 1967."

GLC09735.40

1968

Header Record

Title: [Collection of press photographs related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 1968][Decimalized .01-.82]

Collection of press photographs dated 1968. Images were printed by Associated Press and United Press International. Majority of images are related to riots that took place following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in April 1968. One image is dated February 1968 depicting a civil rights protest. Locations of the photographs are in Chicago, Richmond, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and others. Certain images in this collection contain graphic violence of police brutality against Black people.

GLC09740

1970

Various

Header Record

Title: Items related to printing of "Law of Self-Defense [Decimalized .01-.03]

Three items related to a printing of "Law of Self-Defense" by Frederic S. and Joan Baum dated 1970. Includes a printing of the book, and two documents related to the publication dated 1970.

GLC09640.132

1970

Baum, Frederic S., 1933-2009

Book

Title: Law of Self-Defense

One book entitled "Law of Self-Defense" written by Frederic S. Baum and Joan Baum dated 1970. Pertains to the historical background of self-defense, legal cases surrounding it, clarification of the concept and paramilitary groups who use it as a means of force.

GLC09640.132.01

9 June 1966

United Press International

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of shotgun wounds on back of James Meredith's head]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated June 9, 1966. Image shows the back of James Meredith's head covered in bullet wounds. The incident occurred during a civil rights march he organized in Mississippi.

GLC09824.05