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[African American man crouches on the ground and reacts to strikes from a crowd of state police with night sticks, following failed sit-in demonstration, Chester, Pa.]

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  1. African Americans
  2. Chester
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Nightsticks
  5. Pennsylvania
  6. Photographic Prints
  7. Police
  8. Police Brutality
  9. Transmitted Images

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