Associated Press Her Friends Injured During Racial Violence

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GLC#
GLC09733.35-View header record
Type
Images
Date
25 July 1966
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Her Friends Injured During Racial Violence
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
1 wirephoto Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement The Sixties

One photograph by Associated Press dated July 25, 1966. Image is of a young girl holding a cigarette. Behind her are four men. One man on the left has his head bent forward, hands covered in blood; another injured man, pictured in the middle, is on the ground; and two other men are staring away from the scene. Wire transfer information states that violence in East New York started after a sniper killed an 11-year-old Black boy.

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