Elijah Addresses Muslims: flanked by bodyguards, Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, right, addresses concluding session of convention. Final session was marked by brief violence when guards pummeled and ejected a spectator, Chicago.

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Elijah Addresses Muslims: flanked by bodyguards, Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, right, addresses concluding session of convention. Final session was marked by brief violence when guards pummeled and ejected a spectator, Chicago.
Elijah Addresses Muslims: flanked by bodyguards, Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, right, addresses concluding session of convention. Final session was marked by brief violence when guards pummeled and ejected a spectator, Chicago.
DateMarch 1, 1965
MediumAssociated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 5 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (14.6 × 19.7 cm) Image: 5 5/8 × 6 3/4 in. (14.3 × 17.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.268
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Recto, left side: "[(CX1) Chicago, March 1--ELIJAH ADDRESSES MUSLIMS-- Flanked by bodyguards, / Black Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad, right, addresses concluding session / of convention here Sunday. Final session was marked by brief violence / when guards pummeled and ejected a spectator. (AP Wirephoto) (wb20500str-/tr) 1965]"
Verso, upper left: "XXB 05151"
Inscribed Verso, upper left: "LVL-LDX-432.2" and "2500"
Recto, left side: "Elijah Muhammed is underlined in red"
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
Date: June 16, 1975
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.267
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1983
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.15
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Date: December 3, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.294
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Date: March 22, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.277
Recording session in CBS studio
Recording session in CBS studio
Gordon Coster
Date: c. 1930
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.74
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Claude Daems: Before the camera nails her image down permanently, Claude gives a finishing touch to her coiffure during a modeling session, New York
Burt Glinn
Date: 1961
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.127
Roosevelt Road is Quiet Today: little traffic, vehicles or pedestrian, in to be seen on Chicago's Roosevelt Road (alternate US 30) following a night of relative calm. Police battled rioters for two nights previous and the Illinois National Guard was brought in. Patrolling jeep with armed guardsmen is seen at center and a police car is parked at right
Roosevelt Road is Quiet Today: little traffic, vehicles or pedestrian, in to be seen on Chicago's Roosevelt Road (alternate US 30) following a night of relative calm. Police battled rioters for two nights previous and the Illinois National Guard was brought in. Patrolling jeep with armed guardsmen is seen at center and a police car is parked at right
Date: July 15, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.274
Muslim Boy with Hoop Toy, India
Muslim Boy with Hoop Toy, India
Bill Witt
Date: c. 1943
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.294
The first Germans taken prisoner in the Western Desert arrive at Cairo railway station en route to prison camp. Egyptian police hold back the guards gathered to watch their arrival
The first Germans taken prisoner in the Western Desert arrive at Cairo railway station en route to prison camp. Egyptian police hold back the guards gathered to watch their arrival
George Rodger
Date: c. 1941
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.209
Compromise with the South: Dedicated to the Chicago Convention, from "Harper's Weekly"
Compromise with the South: Dedicated to the Chicago Convention, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 3, 1864
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.61
Illinois National Guard troops stand on a Chicago street in area where violent disturbances have caused death and injury the last three nights, July 15, 1966. Governor Otto Kerner called up 3,000 National Guard troops today in an attempt to halt the strife on Chicago's West Side
Illinois National Guard troops stand on a Chicago street in area where violent disturbances have caused death and injury the last three nights, July 15, 1966. Governor Otto Kerner called up 3,000 National Guard troops today in an attempt to halt the strife on Chicago's West Side
Date: July 17, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.269
A platoon leader, seriously wounded when he stepped on a mine, is carried by Vietnamese soldiers retreating from the mountain where they had attacked the Viet Cong unsuccessfully. Along the side of the road, other soldiers watch for snipers in the thick growth
A platoon leader, seriously wounded when he stepped on a mine, is carried by Vietnamese soldiers retreating from the mountain where they had attacked the Viet Cong unsuccessfully. Along the side of the road, other soldiers watch for snipers in the thick growth
Horst Faas
Date: September 9, 1962
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.129