City Hall melee
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City Hall melee

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

City Hall melee

September 7, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.6 x 23.8 cm (6 9/16 x 9 3/8 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0055
Inscriptions recto (printed): (MI7) MILWAUKEE, WIS., SEPT. 7 -- CITY HALL MELEE -- Negro civil rights deomonstra- / [o]r is forcibly taken from mayor's office in Milwaukee City Hall today / [a]fter sit-in erupted into short melee when group blocked an office door. / [F]ive demonstrators were hauled into police patrol wagons during the melee. / [O]ther demonstrators scattered debris and ruined furnature in the office. / (AP Wirephoto) (cwh51843xxmbr) 67 "(SEE AP WIRE STORY)

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