Police Disperse Marchers with Tear Gas
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 6 x 8 5/8 in. (15.2 x 21.9 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 7 x 9 in. (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of African Americans who are trying to escape from their tents that have just been attacked with tear gas by troopers who stand lined up with gas masks and guns in the foreground. 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
- 2012.169.6
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions