Candlelight instead of firebombs
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Candlelight instead of firebombs

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Candlelight instead of firebombs

July 26, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.6 x 16.7 cm (8 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.)
Paper: 22.8 x 18 cm (9 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0061
Inscriptions recto (typed on attached paper): D7074 (NY 2) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / CANDLELIGHT INSTEAD OF FIREBOMBS / A NUN WALKS AMONG RESIDENTS OF NEW / YORK'S SPANISH HARLEM IN A RELIGOUS / PROCESSION THROUGH STREETS THAT / ROCKED WITH VIOLENCE THE NIGHTS OF / JULY 22-24, TAKING PART IN THE MARCH / WERE PRIESTS, NUNS AND SOME 600 / PUERTO RICANS, WHO SANG AND CARRIED / CANDLES AND HAND-PAINTED PICTURES OF / SAINTS THROUGH THE SLUM AREA. THE / AREA REMAINED QUIET THE NIGHT OF / JULY 25, AND THE MORNING OF JULY 26 / EXCEPT FOR A FEW ISOLATED INCIDENTS. / SS/M 930A 7/26/67 STF 44 / NYC NYT CBS NN NSL LON PAR SS ROM GER / TOK BAIRES [illeg.] TMC NSWK WW

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