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Associated Press Police Lead Negro From Harlem Riot Scene

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09733.13 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: New York, New York Type: Photograph Date: 19 July 1964 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 26.5 x 21.3 cm

One photograph entitled, "Police Lead Negro From Harlem Riot Scene" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a police officer lading a cuffed Black man by the arm past a line of police officers. Wire transfer information states that the arrest followed riots in Harlem.

1945 to the Present
African American History
African Americans
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights
Police
Protests
New York
Segregation
Race discrimination
The Civil Rights Movement
The Sixties

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