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Blood streams from the face of unidentified segregationist near Central High School. The man was clubbed when he tried to break through police lines. More than 100 police battled marchers who attempted to stop integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 12, 1959
Blood streams from the face of unidentified segregationist near Central High School. The man was clubbed when he tried to break through police lines. More than 100 police battled marchers who attempted to stop integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 12, 1959
Blood streams from the face of unidentified segregationist near Central High School. The man was clubbed when he tried to break through police lines. More than 100 police battled marchers who attempted to stop integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 12, 1959

Blood streams from the face of unidentified segregationist near Central High School. The man was clubbed when he tried to break through police lines. More than 100 police battled marchers who attempted to stop integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 12, 1959

Maker
Date8/12/1959
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions5-7/8 x 7-7/8 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Collections
Object number2024.258
Status
Not on view
Cooling Off: Mrs. William Hodel turns a garden hose on a flag-bearing hard hat during one of several confrontations between marchers and onlookers in a Sunday "march for peace." The hard hats made up the brunt of marchers, who police estimated totaled more than 20,000. Mrs. Hodel, coming to the aid of her son and son-in-law, was later knocked to the ground, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1970
Cooling Off: Mrs. William Hodel turns a garden hose on a flag-bearing hard hat during one of several confrontations between marchers and onlookers in a Sunday "march for peace." The hard hats made up the brunt of marchers, who police estimated totaled more than 20,000. Mrs. Hodel, coming to the aid of her son and son-in-law, was later knocked to the ground, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1970
Unknown Artist
6/8/1970
Class in Church: In Little Rock yesterday, this class met in the Westover Hills Presbyterian Church, as one of several interim high schools opened by churches while the public schools are closed by opponents of integration. The special schools are designed to prevent pupils' falling behind, October 14, 1958
Class in Church: In Little Rock yesterday, this class met in the Westover Hills Presbyterian Church, as one of several interim high schools opened by churches while the public schools are closed by opponents of integration. The special schools are designed to prevent pupils' falling behind, October 14, 1958
Unknown Artist
10/14/1958
Checking Credentials: Lawyer William Kunstler, center, and Dr. Frankel Kenneth, right, get their credentials checked by a police officer in effort to visit H. Rap Brown in New York's Roosevelt Hospital Saturday. Brown was wounded during a gun battle earlier Saturday when he and accomplices attempted to holdup a Manhattan bar. Both Kunstler and Kenneth were denied permission to visit Brown, October 16, 1971
Checking Credentials: Lawyer William Kunstler, center, and Dr. Frankel Kenneth, right, get their credentials checked by a police officer in effort to visit H. Rap Brown in New York's Roosevelt Hospital Saturday. Brown was wounded during a gun battle earlier Saturday when he and accomplices attempted to holdup a Manhattan bar. Both Kunstler and Kenneth were denied permission to visit Brown, October 16, 1971
Unknown Artist
10/16/1971
Troopers of the 101st Airborne Division are issued parachutes before taking off from Little Rock to their home base at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The Army flew half of its 1,000 paratrooper integration task force out and announced plans to relieve the other half, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 16th, 1957
Troopers of the 101st Airborne Division are issued parachutes before taking off from Little Rock to their home base at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The Army flew half of its 1,000 paratrooper integration task force out and announced plans to relieve the other half, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 16th, 1957
Unknown Artist
10/16/1957
Untitled [They rarely attended school more than four or five months a year.]
Untitled [They rarely attended school more than four or five months a year.]
Ben Shahn
1948
Steven, Kenwood Academy High School
Steven, Kenwood Academy High School
Dawoud Bey
2003
Theresa, South Shore High School
Theresa, South Shore High School
Dawoud Bey
2003
Defiant Alabama Governor George Wallace (center, raincoat) is pictured surrounded by state troopers in front of the executive mansion the outspoken segregationist was accompanied by troopers after a federal court in Birmingham ordered U.S. Marshals to serve Wallace with papers to appear in court June 3 to show cause why he should not interfere with the scheduled integration of the University of Alabama June 10, Montgomery, Alabama, May 27, 1963
Defiant Alabama Governor George Wallace (center, raincoat) is pictured surrounded by state troopers in front of the executive mansion the outspoken segregationist was accompanied by troopers after a federal court in Birmingham ordered U.S. Marshals to serve Wallace with papers to appear in court June 3 to show cause why he should not interfere with the scheduled integration of the University of Alabama June 10, Montgomery, Alabama, May 27, 1963
Unknown Artist
5/27/1963
The Police Held the Threat of the Plot (La Police Tenait Le Fil du Complot)
The Police Held the Threat of the Plot (La Police Tenait Le Fil du Complot)
J. J. Grandville
1832 - 1833
A police officer of the 9th precinct patiently waits in the hospital emergency ward for a victim, shot in the leg, to say what happened. The man said he knew nothing but the police found out afterwards he had visited a private social club and was shot in a dispute. Because his leg wound is not considered serious at the moment, the man is waiting in the hospital hallway to be operated on, Bellevue Hospital Emergency Ward, New York City
A police officer of the 9th precinct patiently waits in the hospital emergency ward for a victim, shot in the leg, to say what happened. The man said he knew nothing but the police found out afterwards he had visited a private social club and was shot in a dispute. Because his leg wound is not considered serious at the moment, the man is waiting in the hospital hallway to be operated on, Bellevue Hospital Emergency Ward, New York City
Leonard Freed
1976
Negroes Arrested in New Outbreak: two negroes are marched at gunpoint to a police bus after their arrest near a Black Muslim Mosque in the Los Angeles district early today. The mosque was the scene of a gunfight with police who said Negroes were taking guns into the temple, August 18, 1965
Negroes Arrested in New Outbreak: two negroes are marched at gunpoint to a police bus after their arrest near a Black Muslim Mosque in the Los Angeles district early today. The mosque was the scene of a gunfight with police who said Negroes were taking guns into the temple, August 18, 1965
Unknown Artist
8/18/1965
Joseon painting: Travelers among Streams and Mountains 潮鮮畫, 溪山行陸旅圖
Joseon painting: Travelers among Streams and Mountains 潮鮮畫, 溪山行陸旅圖
Unknown Artist
16th century