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Anti-Civil Rights demonstrators

Declan Haun1966/1966

Chicago History Museum

Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Counter protesters heckled and sometimes attacked civil rights marchers as they walked through all-white neighborhoods in August 1966. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and local leaders of the Chicago Freedom Movement, activists demanded the city help integrate neighborhoods.

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  • Title: Anti-Civil Rights demonstrators
  • Creator: Declan Haun
  • Date: 1966/1966
  • Location: Chicago
  • To see more : http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/293.html
  • Medium: black-and-white negatives
  • Credit: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-36886; Declan Haun, photographer
  • Creator role: photographer
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