Digital print of a mob attacking a car during a Chicago Freedom Movement march

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 color photograph of a mob attacking a blue car. The store, "SUPER 100," has people running out of it carrying various items. One man, in a yellow shirt and sunglasses, is preparing to throw a can at the car. Another man, in a white shirt, is pushing on the left fender of the car. Other men gathered around the car are throwing things at the car, while some men stand and watch.

Catalog date

August 5, 1966; printed 2012

Recorded places

Marquette Park neighborhood, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Civil Rights; Photography; Race relations; U.S. History, 1961-1969; Violence

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