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Digital print of mob and police during Chicago Freedom Movement march

August 5, 1966; printed 2012

Marquette Park Neighborhood, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A color photograph of a man being escorted by a Chicago police officer. He is wearing a plaid shirt, partially unbuttoned with a white t-shirt underneath. Wearing black pants and white shoes, he steps forwards aggressively, head lowered, gaze to the front. The police officer, in blue shirt and helmet, is holding onto his right arm. Another man is holding his left arm at the elbow and the wrist. A crowd of young men stand in the background, watching.

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Catalog reference: 2013.140.17

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