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[Police in Harlem standing on the street with guns drawn and pointing upwards during the July 1964 race riots]

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Wolfson, Stanley

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  1. New York
  2. New York (State)
  3. Photographic Prints
  4. Police
  5. Race Riots

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'It really takes guts to stick' This scene occurred at Fulton St. and Nostrand Ave., in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section today / Detective examines burned out police car on Herkimer St. and Nostrand Ave. as the Harlem rioting fanned out to Brooklyn last night Part of crowd in Harlem chants and taunts police on Lenox Ave. last night Mrs. Anna Kelter, 67, looks in horror at damage done by rioters to her store at 551 Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn Police at Gates Ave. station in Brooklyn check loot, including several portable television sets, that had been confiscated from rioters Policeman confronts a group at Seventh Ave. and 126th St. during renewed violence in Harlem The fatal shooting of Powell stirred Negro rioters to race through Harlem streets carrying pictures of Lt. Gilligan Incident at 133rd St. and Seventh Ave. last night as Harlem was torn by disorder for second time WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about recent race riots in New York State as well as the 1964 presidential election, New York, New York, 1964 July 27 [People demonstrating and carrying signs protesting the killing of 15 year old James Powell by a police officer, as police look on, Harlem, New York City] Crowd pleasers Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Davis Jr. in good spirits as they attended the premiere of "The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd," at the Shubert Theater / Marchers carrying banner lead way as 15,000 parade in Harlem Bullet holes in back of stage where Malcolm X was shot [Exterior view of home of Malcolm X, in foreground remains of charred furniture] There was time for fun and games last night near W. 123rd police station Police guard the rooftop of the Unity funeral home where the body of slain Black Nationalist leader Malcolm X is reposing Couple and cops [Police officer in front of crowd of children and adults at Federal Theatre Project performance in Central Park, New York] [African American boys and men walking by a drugstore with smashed windows and ripped down gates, on Lenox Avenue, after riots in Harlem, New York City] The Survey Midmonthly, September, 1935. (Volume 71, Issue 9)
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