Routed by Tear Gas
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 6 3/16 x 8 11/16 in. (15.7 x 22.1 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 7 1/16 x 9 1/16 in. (17.9 x 23 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of African Americans running out of a tent after it has been attacked with tear gas. Many people are falling to the ground. A yellow paper with a typed description of the event is attached to the bottom of the photograph.
- Place depicted
- Canton, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard Greenberg Gallery
- Object number
- 2012.169.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible