Associated Press Marching Orders

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GLC#
GLC09718.06-View header record
Type
Images
Date
15 September 1966
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Marching Orders
Place Written
Chicago, Illinois
Pagination
1 photograph : b&w Height: 17.9 cm, Width: 22.9 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement

One black and white photograph entitled, "Marching Orders" taken by Associated Press dated September 15, 1966. Image is of a crowd of protesters in Chicago. A man in the center of the photograph has his back to viewer and faces the crowd. A man to his left is shouting. Police officers stand on a bridge in the background. On the reverse side is a typed note that details the man in the center is Robert Lucas, head of Chicago's chapter of Congress of Racial Equity. It states that he was 42 years old and a mail handler at the Chicago Post Office. He took over demonstrations after Martin Luther King Jr. had reached an open housing agreement with the city.

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