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30,045 Protest Against Excessive Police Force Photos and High-Res Pictures

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Police officers watch as civil rights campaigners take part in the Meredith Mississippi March near Jackson, Mississippi, June 1966. The march began...

Medicine Men Mad Bear , of the Tuscarora Reservation in New York, and Peter Mitten , of Ontario, Canada, are trying to improve on which physician’s...

Richard Oakes Beating

Police encircle militant students at San Francisco State College 1/23 after breaking up an illegal rally. Of some 400 militants, police trapped 380...

Police Surround Student Demonstrators

Club-swinging police break up small demonstration at San Francisco State College here December 3rd. Violence flared about an hour after classes...

Breaking Up a Demonstration

In front of an FW Woolworth Co store on North Howard Street in Baltimore, Maryland, African-American citizens walk down the sidewalk amid a heavy...

Baltimore's North Howard Street During The Riots

Baltimore Police officers with billy clubs and shotgun arresting a young African-American protester during the aftermath of a riot, at Franklin...

Baltimore Police Officers With

Demonstrations, a peaceful march through a city, African-Americans carrying banners protesting against discrimination and for equal opportunities for...

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, a woman...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, a pedal cap...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, a taxicab...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two New...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, a young...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, a black SUV...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, New York...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square following the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, activists...

Times Square Protest

African Americans picket the sidewalks of Birmingham, Alabama for desegregated schools. A policeman confronts them for the photographers.

Birmingham March for School Desegregation

Police maintaining order during picketing in front of grocery store.

Police maintaining order during picketing in front

Police officer awaiting freedom marchers who are crossing the state to encourage voter registration.

Police officer awaiting freedom marchers who are c

New York: Police officer places a cordon around the entrance to criminal courts building where demonstrators protested the acquittal of six transit...

Police Officer Cordoning a Building Entrance

African American protesters seen through a paddy wagon window, sing and pray during a protest at the Birmingham Jail in Alabama.

Segregation Protesters at Jail

Boston, MA: Dr. Martin Luther King leads march from Roxbury to Boston Common, in protest of racial imbalance in Boston Schools and slum housing...

Martin Luther King Leading Protest March

Three demonstrators join hands to build strength against the force of water sprayed by riot police in Birmingham, Alabama, during a protest of...

Demonstrators Facing Fire Hoses in Birmingham

Philadelphia, PA: Policeman collaring Negro striker in Philadelphia garbage workers walkout of October, 1938.

Policeman Arresting Black Striker

Berkeley, CA- Screaming imprecations at a hapless California Highway Patrolman , a young female demonstrator prepares to belt him on the head with...

Woman Hitting Policeman with Umbrella

Berkeley, CA- Student dissidents and sympathizers watch from their second-floor citadel in Moses Hall on the University of California campus, as a...

Students Watch Police from Dorm Window

Philadelphia, PA- Relatives and supporters of the radical back-to-nature group MOVE conduct an anniversary march through the Osage street...

MOVE Protesters Holding Placards

Plaquemine, LA: Negro demonstrators stand in the doorway of the Freedom Rock Baptist Church yelling insults and throwing bricks at policemen, who...

African Americans In Church Doorway

New York, NY: Three persons were injured and nine persons were taken into custody after a melee between police and Civil Rights demonstrators on the...

People Seated On City Hall Steps

New York, NY: Brooklyn Medical Center, Clarkson and Brooklyn Avenues. Photo shows woman being carried to wagon by Police during Civil Rights...

Police Carrying Black Woman Off During Pro

August 8, 1968 - Miami: Miami policemen, one holding the man's arm and the other with an arm lock on his neck, drag away a Negro youth during a clash...

Policemen Choking African American Rioter

Keeping Negroes off the grass, Le Flore Co. Deputy Sheriff pushed Hosea Williams on chest as he trys to prevent Mississippi freedom marchers from...

Sheriff Pushing Freedom Marcher

Sherwood Ross , a Washington public relations advisor, and an unidentified police officer examine the wounds of African American student James...

Police Examine Wounded James Meredith

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Ringed by police, demonstrators hold chained arms overhead prior to their for blocking entrance to construction site of Medical...

Demonstration in Brooklyn

September 30, 1963 - Orangeburg, S.C.: Negroes in the Orangeburg County jail compound stand in front of a fire hose nozzle minutes after their...

Caged Protesters

Montgomery, Alabama: Scramble For Cover. Civil rights demonstrators scramble for cover as mounted Sheriff's posse rides through them here March 16th....

Disorderly Protest with Police on Horseback

May 14, 1960 - San Francisco: Unidentified demonstrator is escorted to patrol wagon after he became obnoxious and obstructed traffic outside City...

Officers Detaining Unidentified Man

San Francisco, California- A Negro demonstrator who tried to stage a lie-down in front of the speaker's rostrum during the demonstration for the...

Police Drag Away Protester @Convention

State troopers beat a man leaving a concert by Paul Robeson at the Old Hollow Brook Golf Club; troopers and police, who were supposed to protect...

Police Attacking African American Man

San Francisco, California- Police move in to arrest civil rights demonstrators who lay down and blocked a street leading from the Cow Palace at the...

Police Arrest Civil Rights Protesters

San Francisco, CA- A demonstrator reads "The Quotations of Mao Tse-tung" to a policeman on the campus of San Francisco State College. Unrest...

Protester Reads Mao Tse-Tung to Police

Chicago, IL- Demonstrators attack Chicago Police Captain Paul McLaughlin and an unidentified sergeant, during a clash outside the Federal Building,...

Demonstrators Stuggle With Police

Racial tensions continue at the City College of New York in the weeks following a protest by black and Puerto Rican students demanding higher...

Police and Students Clashing

New York, NY- A girl student cries after being injured in a clash between police and radical students on the campus of the City College of New York....

Angry Student Cries After Police Clash

Demonstrators from the National Women's Liberation Movement picket the 1968 Miss America Pageant.

Demonstrators at the Miss America Pageant

Demonstrators and riot police during a demonstration against the KKK and Neo-Nazi groups near the site of the 1988 Democratic National Convention

Demonstrators and Riot Police

St. Augustine, FL: Motel manager James Brock sits in his office at the Monson Motor Lodge and awaits the arrival of police after he locked the doors...

Desegregation Protest In Florida

The Haymarket Riot in Chicago, May 4, 1886. Poster protesting the atrocity of the police and calling for renewed mass meeting.

Haymarket Meeting Poster

Selma, Alabama- Wearing helmets and gas masks, charging Alabama state troopers pass up fallen Negro demonstrators on the median strip of U.S. Highway...

Police By Fallen Civil Rights Protesters

Black Panthers marching in New York City, circa 1970. Mounted police are shown here preceeding the marchers.

Black Panther Marchers and Mounted Police

New York, NY- A crowd of over five hundred Negro men and women walked round and round the New York City police headquarters in expression of sympathy...

Crowd Protesting Arrest of Father Divine

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