Blocking the way
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Blocking the way

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Blocking the way

1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.1 x 24 cm (6 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0346.0004
Inscriptions recto (printed): (SW1) ST. LOUIS, OCT. 7--BLOCKING THE WAY--Three Negro girls sing and / clap while another lies under the wheels of a police vehicle during a / protest deomstration today aginst alleged job discrimination at the / Jefferson Bank and Trust Co. in downtown St. Louis. Police arrested 21 / persons, including some who blocked police vehicles and others who sat / in at the bank. Sixteen other persons have been arrested since / demonstrations began at the bank Aug. 30. (AP WIREPHOTO) (SEE WIRESTORY) / (mr21903g0d) 1963

verso (pen): RT1-RX
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