Up in smoke
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Up in smoke

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Up in smoke

May 12, 1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.9 x 23.6 cm (7 1/16 x 9 5/16 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0004
Inscriptions recto (printed): (BM1) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 12--UP IN SMOKE--Police and fire- / men stand powerless to stop a roaring blaze that razed / a Negro housing project after bombs were thrown at a / Negro leader's home and a Negro motel, used as integra- / tion headquarters. Rioting, looting and arson broke out after the bombings. (AP Wirephoto) (pfol050stf-hwc) / 1963.

verso (ink): Wirephoto - General [crossed out] / Riots
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