Demonstrators come well equipped outside the House Un-American Activities committee. After violence in which 40 demonstrators were arrested, pickets sat down and played tape recorder and played guitar while others sat on curb. The committee held last day of hearings into communist activitites here. Man standing is Wilberforce Jones a member of the Negro-American Labor Council, Chicago.

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Demonstrators come well equipped outside the House Un-American Activities committee. After violence in which 40 demonstrators were arrested, pickets sat down and played tape recorder and played guitar while others sat on curb. The committee held last day of hearings into communist activitites here. Man standing is Wilberforce Jones a member of the Negro-American Labor Council, Chicago.
Demonstrators come well equipped outside the House Un-American Activities committee. After violence in which 40 demonstrators were arrested, pickets sat down and played tape recorder and played guitar while others sat on curb. The committee held last day of hearings into communist activitites here. Man standing is Wilberforce Jones a member of the Negro-American Labor Council, Chicago.
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DateMay 27, 1965
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsSheet: 9 1/8 × 7 1/8 in. (23.2 × 18.1 cm) Image: 8 5/16 × 6 1/2 in. (21.1 × 16.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.241
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Markings Verso, upper center (black ink stamp, partially obscured): "PLEASE CR... / U.P.I. P... / This picture is for your p... / not to be loaned, syndicated... / purposes without written p... / Press International. By accep... / to hold the United Press intern... / any loss or damage arising by .... / publication of this picture. / UNITED PRESS INTE... / 430 N. MICHIGAN... / CHICAGO, ILLINOIS"
Verso, left center, sideways (red stamp): "CENTRAL PRESS / ASSOCIATION / MAY 28 1965 / 3322 / REFERENCE DEPT."
Verso, right, sideways (typed adhesive label): "HXP052716 [illegibile] BUREAU / CHICAGO: Demonstrators come well equipped outside the House / Un-American Activities committee here 5/27. After violence / in which 40 demonstrators were arrested, pickets sat down / and played tape recorder and played guitar while others sat / on curb. The committee held last day of hearings 5/27 into / comunist [sic] activities here. Man standing is Wilberforce Jones / a member of the Negro-American Labor Council. / A UPI PHOTO 5/27/65"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (pencil): "CVL-IL-089"

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