Cool it
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Photograph
Cool it
July 13, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.7 x 24.4 cm (6 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 17.9 x 25.5 cm (7 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0013
Inscriptions recto (printed): (NR1) NEWARK, N.J., July 13--'COOL IT'--Robert Curvin, an official of the / [C]ongress of Racial Equality (CORE) uses a loudspeaker to calm a crowd / [o]f Negroes clustered outside the fourth precinct police station in / [N]ewark early today. Rocks and firbombs were hurled during a brief out- / [b]urst following the arrest of a Negro taxicab driver. Police officials [k]ept officers inside the station house during the outburst to avoid / [in]flaming the crowd, which later demonstrated at city xxx hall before / [d]ispersing. (AP Wirephoto) (See AP Wire Story) (bh/50657/news) 1967 / [N]EWARK OUT
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