Demonstrators Sack USIS Building in Hue: Student demonstrators hurl books out of the United States Information Service building in Hue. The books and furniture were later burned in front of the building.

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Demonstrators Sack USIS Building in Hue: Student demonstrators hurl books out of the United States Information Service building in Hue. The books and furniture were later burned in front of the building.
Demonstrators Sack USIS Building in Hue: Student demonstrators hurl books out of the United States Information Service building in Hue. The books and furniture were later burned in front of the building.
Artist/Maker
DateMay 1966
MediumVintage Associate Press wirephoto
DimensionsSheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 8 1/4 × 6 1/8 in. (21 × 15.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.246
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Markings Recto, bottom margin (transferred typed adhesive label): "(NY7-May 27) DEMONSTRATORS SACK USIS BUILDING IN HUE -- Student demon- / strators hurl books out of the United States Information Service / building in Hue yesterday. The books and furniture were later burned / in front of the building. (APWirephoto via radio from Saigon) (ccc / 60600rca) 1966 (See AP Wire Story)"
Verso, bottom left edge (newspaper clipping): "AP Wirephoto / RI MAY 27 1966 BOOKS TO BURN / Student demonstrators hurl books out of / the United States Information Service build- / ing in Hue, South Viet Nam. The books and / furniture were burned in front of the building."
Verso, lower right corner (pink ink stamp): "RETURN to: / CHRONICLE FILES"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (pencil): "VNM-ANON-632"
Verso, upper center (blue ink): "US Information / Agency / 1966"
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
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
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
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
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Date: March 12, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.265
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
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
Anti-war demonstrator is picked up by police for removal to jail here early today when 20 of the demonstrators were arrested as they tried to invade an induction center. A group of some 50 to 75 marchers had been parading in front of the center when some of them broke ranks and headed for the doors
Anti-war demonstrator is picked up by police for removal to jail here early today when 20 of the demonstrators were arrested as they tried to invade an induction center. A group of some 50 to 75 marchers had been parading in front of the center when some of them broke ranks and headed for the doors
Date: October 19, 1967
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto with added pigment
Object number: 2022.15.259
Image Not Available for Hours with Men and Books
Hours with Men and Books
Ronald Kitaj
Date: 1972
Medium: Screenprint
Object number: 1983.8
Books Make the Home
Books Make the Home
Rockwell Kent
Date: 1938
Medium: Woodcut
Object number: 1994.65
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
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
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.283