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| Creator: | Leffler, Warren K. |
| Title: | Washington D.C. riot. April 1968. Aftermath |
| Date: | 1968 Apr. 8 |
| Description: | Photograph showing a soldier standing guard in a Washington, D.C., street with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination | African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.) | Race riots--Washington (D.C.) | Ruined buildings--Washington (D.C.) | Soldiers--Washington (D.C.) | Washington (D.C.)--Race relations | Riots--Washington (D.C.) | Assassination--Tennessee--Memphis | Washington (D.C.) |
| Collection: | Voices of Freedom: The Virginia Civil Rights Movement |
| Institution: | Library of Congress |
| Contributors: | Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | Voices of Civil Rights Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Online Publisher: | [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress |
| Original Material: | 1 negative : film Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. |
| Rights and Usage: | LC-U9-18949-12 (b&w film neg.) LC-DIG-ppmsca-04301 (digital file from original) No known restrictions on publication |
| Related Materials: | Exhibited: Voices of Civil Rights, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04301 |
