Sit down protest: As police came to stop youth from inciting other demonstrators, he threw himself on the ground and now is carried to the wagon by police, 74th and Lowe, Chicago.

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Sit down protest: As police came to stop youth from inciting other demonstrators, he threw himself on the ground and now is carried to the wagon by police, 74th and Lowe, Chicago.
Sit down protest: As police came to stop youth from inciting other demonstrators, he threw himself on the ground and now is carried to the wagon by police, 74th and Lowe, Chicago.
Date August 2, 1963
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/8 × 8 in. (25.7 × 20.3 cm) Image: 9 5/8 × 7 1/2 in. (24.4 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.283
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, upper right (stamped): "[PROPERTY OF / NEWSPAPER DIVISION / AUG 1963 / FIELD ENTERPRISES INC.]"
Verso, center (stamped): "[OLE 78 - 833]"
Verso, upper middle, (stamped): "[Gene Pesek August 2nd 1963 / Sit down protest / 74th and Lowe / 1- as police come to stop youth from inciting others demonstrators / he throw himself on the ground, lieut at left pointing, told officers / to put this man in the wagon.(crossed out) / 2- here ring leader is carried to the wagon by police.]"
Inscribed Verso, center: "2"
Verso, upper left: "CVL-IL-112" and "2000"
Verso, lower center: "Segregation- Chgo-Schools"
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Unknown artist, American
Date: August 13, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.240
Photo from inside ante-room of Mayor Richard J. Daley's office shows entrance of Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators being barred by police. Garrick Madison (white shirt) 18, spokesman for the group, talks with Col. Jack Reilly (white hair), the mayor's director of special events, who eventually allowed Madison and four other representatives of CORE to enter the suite for an interview with Daley. Daley later told reporters: "They asked for my co-operation with regarding the Board of Education, and I told them it is not my policy to interfere with the Board of Education." Reporters and city hall workers are amidst CORE group outside office, Chicago.
Photo from inside ante-room of Mayor Richard J. Daley's office shows entrance of Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators being barred by police. Garrick Madison (white shirt) 18, spokesman for the group, talks with Col. Jack Reilly (white hair), the mayor's director of special events, who eventually allowed Madison and four other representatives of CORE to enter the suite for an interview with Daley. Daley later told reporters: "They asked for my co-operation with regarding the Board of Education, and I told them it is not my policy to interfere with the Board of Education." Reporters and city hall workers are amidst CORE group outside office, Chicago.
Date: July 22, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.282
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.
Unknown artist, American
Date: May 27, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.241
Protest School Superintendent with Sit-down: Marchers representing various civil rights groups stage a sit-down in La Salle Street in front of City Hall today to protest retention of Benjamin C. Willis as Chicago school superintendent. An earlier scheduled boycott of classes was prohibited by court order
Protest School Superintendent with Sit-down: Marchers representing various civil rights groups stage a sit-down in La Salle Street in front of City Hall today to protest retention of Benjamin C. Willis as Chicago school superintendent. An earlier scheduled boycott of classes was prohibited by court order
Date: June 10, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.285
Coming to Blows: Demonstrators attack Chicago police commander Paul McLaughlin, left, and an undidentified sergeant during clash outside Chicago's Federal Building yesterday where eight persons are on trial for conspiring to promote riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Coming to Blows: Demonstrators attack Chicago police commander Paul McLaughlin, left, and an undidentified sergeant during clash outside Chicago's Federal Building yesterday where eight persons are on trial for conspiring to promote riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Unknown artist, American
Date: September 25, 1969
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.249
Speech Reaction: Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman smashes a television set after watching President Nixon's news conference. The television was set up on the Washington Monument grounds and watched by demonstrators who arrived early for antiwar protest.
Speech Reaction: Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman smashes a television set after watching President Nixon's news conference. The television was set up on the Washington Monument grounds and watched by demonstrators who arrived early for antiwar protest.
Unknown artist, American
Date: September 4, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.251
Another Day, Another Confrontation: A large crowd of demonstrators is stopped by a thin line of county police as they attempted to march to the courthouse. They were halted by Sheriff Jim Clark and told they could proceed on an individual basis if they had voter registration business there. City police later replaced the sheriff's men. A contingent of state police stands ready in foreground.
Another Day, Another Confrontation: A large crowd of demonstrators is stopped by a thin line of county police as they attempted to march to the courthouse. They were halted by Sheriff Jim Clark and told they could proceed on an individual basis if they had voter registration business there. City police later replaced the sheriff's men. A contingent of state police stands ready in foreground.
Date: March 15, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.276
Yippie Leader: Jerry Rubin (right), wearing a RE-ELECT NIXON button, expresses himself to a TV newsman about the upcoming Democratic convention on the lawn of Conventional Hall. With Rubin was Stew Albert. Both are leaders of the Youth International Party. They said they were sent to Miami Beach by the Yippies to survey the convention site. Rubin predicted that 10,000 nudes would march down Washington Avenue in front of convention hall when the Democrats convene in July.
Yippie Leader: Jerry Rubin (right), wearing a RE-ELECT NIXON button, expresses himself to a TV newsman about the upcoming Democratic convention on the lawn of Conventional Hall. With Rubin was Stew Albert. Both are leaders of the Youth International Party. They said they were sent to Miami Beach by the Yippies to survey the convention site. Rubin predicted that 10,000 nudes would march down Washington Avenue in front of convention hall when the Democrats convene in July.
Joe Sebo
Date: February 16, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.163
Police move in with night sticks to break up group of demonstrators who tried to break police lines after marching on Central High School August 12th. Firemen with high pressure hoses and police put down the riotous protest
Police move in with night sticks to break up group of demonstrators who tried to break police lines after marching on Central High School August 12th. Firemen with high pressure hoses and police put down the riotous protest
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage United Press International Telephoto with airbrushing
Object number: 2022.15.117
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
Two hundred Negroes, mostly teenagers, were arrested after police broke up a noisy racial demonstration in the lobby of the First National Bank. The demonstrators were arrested when they sat down on the floor of the bank lobby. The protest was against alleged employment discrimination by the bank, East St. Louis, Illinois.
Two hundred Negroes, mostly teenagers, were arrested after police broke up a noisy racial demonstration in the lobby of the First National Bank. The demonstrators were arrested when they sat down on the floor of the bank lobby. The protest was against alleged employment discrimination by the bank, East St. Louis, Illinois.
Bettmann Archive
Date: August 15, 1963
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.260
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Unknown artist
Date: May 29, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.184