[Associated Press Photograph of Two Men Arrested After New York Race Riot]

Associated Press [Associated Press Photograph of Two Men Arrested After New York Race Riot]

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GLC#
GLC0733.01
Type
Photographs
Date
2 August 1943
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
[Associated Press Photograph of Two Men Arrested After New York Race Riot]
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
1 photograph : b&w ; 19.5 x 27.1 cm

Photograph from Associated Press showing New York police leading two African American men to the police station. One of them men is injured. Caption explains that the men were captured by police after a night of street fights between the police and African Americans, in which three people died, eight were shot, and "scores were injured". On the back of the photograph is the clipping from when the photograph was used in a newspaper article, stamped with the date August 8, 1943 (though the picture was originally dated as August 2, 1943.). Earliest photograph in New York Riot photograph collection (GLC09733), dated from the 1940s while the other photographs are from the 1960s.

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