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Digital print of police arresting a man during a Chicago Freedom Movement march

August 5, 1966; printed 2012

Marquette Park, 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 Chicago police arresting a bloody man wearing a white shirt and green pants. His hands are behind his back and blood is running down the right side of his face. One of the men arresting him is in plainclothes, one is in police uniform. Other officers and people in the crowd look on.

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Catalog reference: 2013.140.18

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