Demonstrators block hallway
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Demonstrators block hallway

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Demonstrators block hallway

1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 23.7 x 17.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 7/8 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 25.4 x 52.3 cm (10 x 20 5/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0346.0008
Inscriptions recto (printed): SE1 SEATTLE, JULY 26--DEMONSTRATORS BLOCK HALLWAY--Demonstrators lie in / the hallway outside the City Council Chmbers today as police officers / prepare to remove them. The demonstrators were some of th 24 arrested / after protesting the Council's action in approving a Human Rights / Commission. Seven of the demonstrators were white persons. The protestors / were seeking greater representation for negro's on the Commission, which / has two negro's in its 12 man membershi8p. (APWirephoto) bwc1914tms 1963
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