Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Photograph of a man in a police wagon during the Newark Riots
July 1967
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified man in a rumpled three-piece suit with his hands cuffed behind his back, seated alone in the back of a police wagon.
- Catalog date
- July 1967
- Recorded places
- Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Civil Rights; Photography; Race discrimination; Race relations; Race riots; U.S. History, 1961-1969; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗
Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: 2011.57.10.2
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
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