Armed whites arrested in negro riot area
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Armed whites arrested in negro riot area

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Associated Press

Maker
American

Armed whites arrested in negro riot area

July 27, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.3 x 24.2 cm (6 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0059
Inscriptions recto (printed): (PN1) PHOENIX, Ariz., July 27 -- ARMED WHITES ARRESTED IN NEGRO RIOT AREA -- Plain- / clothed police officers armed with riot guns hold three white males at gunpoint / after they found three rifles in their car as they drove through the center of / a Negro riot area last night. They were hauled off to police headquarters as / Phoenix officials declared a state of emergency in a wide area of the city / and put a rigidly enforced curfew into effect to restore calm today. AP Wirephoto sb 014027 staffer 67

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