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Associated Press Her Friends Injured During Racial Violence

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09733.35 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: New York, New York Type: Photograph Date: 25 July 1966 Pagination: 1 wirephoto Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

One photograph by Associated Press dated July 25, 1966. Image is of a young girl holding a cigarette. Behind her are four men. One man on the left has his head bent forward, hands covered in blood; another injured man, pictured in the middle, is on the ground; and two other men are staring away from the scene. Wire transfer information states that violence in East New York started after a sniper killed an 11-year-old Black boy.

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