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D.C. riot. April '68. Aftermath (LOC)

Leffler, Warren K.,, photographer.

 

D.C. riot. April '68. Aftermath

 

1968 Apr. 8.

 

1 negative : film.

 

Notes:

Title from contact sheet folder caption.

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.

Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.

Race riots--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.

Ruins--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.

Debris--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.

Soldiers--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.

 

Format: Film negatives--1960-1970.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04301

 

Call Number: LC-U9- 18949-12

 

 

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Uploaded on September 26, 2014
Taken sometime in 1968