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The 1968 Riot Collection includes over 200 powerful images of the riots in Kansas City after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1968 Riot Collection
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Close up of crowd with Fathers Warner and Fly
Close up of crowd outside City Hall, with police officers in the foreground wearing gas masks; Father Ed Warner and Father Fly standing on 12th St. in the center of the photo, with their hands in their pockets.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-105.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
People running from a cloud of tear gas at the corner of 12th and Grand
A group of people run from a cloud of tear gas at the corner of 12th and Grand. One man runs through the gas. Cars are in the street on the other side of the cloud. A police officer wearing a gas mask looks on from behind the cloud.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-106.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Crowd at City Hall beginning to run from police
Crowd outside City Hall beginning to run from the Police. Some people are running in the opposite direction of the police officers, who are lined up at the end of the street in the left portion of the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-107.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Large crowd running away from police at City Hall
Large crowd running away from police officers and tear gas outside City Hall. In the foreground a man is standing with his hands in his pockets watching the oncoming crowd. Tear gas can be seen in the middle left of the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-108.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Aerial view of crowd and tear gas at City Hall
Aerial view of crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-109.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Aerial view of crowd running from tear gas at City Hall
Aerial view of crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas; photo is dark.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-110.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Aerial view of crowd, policemen, and tear gas at City Hall
Aerial view of crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas, with a police blockade in the upper left portion of the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-111.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Aerial view of crowd running from tear gas away from City Hall
Aerial view of crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-112.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Crowd of people running from tear gas with Father Fly
Crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas; Father Fly stands at the center of the photo behind a child on a bicycle, and is looking back behind him toward the police. In the front of the camera an older man is walking away from the scene with his hands in his pockets.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-113.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Crowd running from tear gas at City Hall with Fathers Warner and Fly
Crowd running from City Hall amidst clouds of tear gas; Fathers Fly and Ed Warner on left-hand side.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-114.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Crowd running on sidewalk with police on foreground
Crowd running on sidewalk from Oak St. on to 12th; Police in the foreground.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-115.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Crowd running in street and on sidewalk
Crowd running down sidewalk and street from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police officer in the foreground carrying a baton in his hand.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-116.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Crowd running from tear gas across from City Hall
Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police in the foreground. Photo partially obscured by two police officers standing in front of the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-117.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
Crowd running from tear gas across from City Hall
Crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Police in the foreground, one holding a baton in his hands. In the center of the photo is a child on a bicycle.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-118.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235
View from behind the crowd running from tear gas at City Hall
View from behind of the crowd running from tear gas down 12th St., across from City Hall; Father Fly possibly in center-right of photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_68-riot_photo-119.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0235