Associated Press Anti-Demonstration Casulty

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GLC09717.10-View header record
Type
Images
Date
19 October 1966
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Anti-Demonstration Casulty
Place Written
San Francisco, California
Pagination
1 photograph : b&w Height: 14.3 cm, Width: 20.9 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement

One wirephoto entitled, "Anti-Demonstration Casulty" taken by the Associated Press dated October 19, 1966. Image is of two panels from same protest. On the left is a Black man carrying a sign that reads, "Police, Protectors-of-the-rich Executors-of-the-poor." On the right, the same man (with a white arrow edited in to point to him) is seen amongst a crowd of white
men. Wire transfer information states there was a large group of off-duty police officers and firefighters who gathered at city hall to
protest the suspension of police officer. The officer, Alvin Johnson had shot and killed, Matthew Johnson Jr., a Black teenage boy.

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