Associated Press Anti-Demonstration Casulty
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09717.10 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: San Francisco, California Type: Photograph Date: 19 October 1966 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.3 x 20.9 cm. Order a Copy
One wirephoto entitled, "Anti-Demonstration Casulty" taken by the Associated Press dated October 19, 1966. Image is of two panels from same protest. On the left is a Black man carrying a sign that reads, "Police, Protectors-of-the-rich Executors-of-the-poor." On the right, the same man (with a white arrow edited in to point to him) is seen amongst a crowd of white
men. Wire transfer information states there was a large group of off-duty police officers and firefighters who gathered at city hall to
protest the suspension of police officer. The officer, Alvin Johnson had shot and killed, Matthew Johnson Jr., a Black teenage boy.
The riots following this event came to be known as the Hunter's Point Uprising.
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