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United Press International [Photograph of Civil Rights Protest at World Fair Grounds]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09733.06 Author/Creator: United Press International Place Written: New York, New York Type: Photograph Date: 4 April 1964 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 21.6 cm, Width: 26.4 cm Order a Copy

One photograph taken by United Press International dated April 4, 1964. Image is of demonstrators lying down in the road outside the Flushing Meadow World's Fairgrounds. There are multiple police officers pictured as well. The caption explains that police soon removed the protestor and that 28 people were arrested including the leader of the school boycott movement, Rev. Milton A. Galamison.

Galamison, Milton A., 1923-1988

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