Caught in the confusion
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Caught in the confusion

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Caught in the confusion

October 7, 1964
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.8 x 16.9 cm (8 9/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
Paper: 22.8 x 18 cm (9 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0044
Inscriptions recto (typed on attached paper): A 4946 (NY31) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / CAUGHT IN THE CONFUSION / AN UNIDENTIFIED LITTLE GIRL, CAUGHT IN THE / CONFUSION OF MASS ARRESTS OF DEFIANT MOTHERS / DURING SIT-IN PROTEST AGAINST INTEGRATION / PROGRAM AT P.S. 149 IN JACKSON HEIGHTS SECTION / OF QUEENS, NEW YORK, OCT. 7, CRIES AS SHE IS SEPARATED / FROM HER MOTHER. DOZENS OF WOMEN WERE BUSSED TO / COURT FOR APPEARANCES ON DISORDERLY CONDUCT / CHARGES. IT WAS THEIR THIRD DAY OF SIT-IN DEMON- / STRATIONS. THEY HAD BEEN WARNED THEY WOULD BE ARRESTED. / WVR 130P 10/7/64 STR 48 / NYWS NYWT-S NYT NR HTFD LON ROM PAR GER / SS STT LP MEX PR TMC NSWK WW

(ink): Wirephoto genl [crossed out] / Riots

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