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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) CHARLES, DON & MIKE SMITH for Magnum, Paris. New York, Harlem Riots, 1964. Group of 8 8x10 gelatin silver prints and one 9x14 inch gelatin silver print. New York, 1964
At 9:30 pm on July 18, 1964, demonstrators rioted in New York's Harlem protesting the fatal shooting of 15-year-old James Powell by a white police officer. A protest, sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), had begun peacefully enough, but quickly dissolved into full-blown mayhem. The rioting in Harlem continued for two nights before spreading to Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. In the end, one person was killed, more than 100 people injured, and hundreds arrested. The decade was to see riots in major cities throughout the country; Detroit and Watts being among the worst.
