National Guardsmen stand watch near Water Tower around time of Chicago Riots
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- Created Date
- 1968
- Description
Two armed National Guardsmen police the area around the Water Tower (visible in the background) around the time of the Chicago Riots that broke out in South and West Side neighborhoods following news of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, in Chicago, Illinois, April 1968.
- Creator
Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Illinois. National Guard
Automobiles
Bicycles
Soldiers
Armed forces
Riots
Streets
African American
Civil rights
Water towers - Location
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Type
- image
- Format
- Color transparencies
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2014, all rights reserved.
- Chicago citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer). National Guardsmen stand watch near Water Tower around time of Chicago Riots. 1968. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1261. (Accessed April 16, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer), (1968) National Guardsmen stand watch near Water Tower around time of Chicago Riots. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1261
- MLA citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1261>.