- Created by
- Kleina, Bernard, American
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- August 5, 1966; printed 2012
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 5 5/8 x 8 11/16 in. (14.3 x 22.1 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
- Description
- A color photograph of a Chicago police officer confronting a mob at a gas station. The officer, in his blue uniform with his billy club raised, is confronting a man with no shirt. next to him a man in black shirt flinching away from the billy club. The rest of the mob is breaking up and leaving the scene. At the extreme right is a Confederate flag.
- Place depicted
- Marquette Park neighborhood, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Chicago Freedom Movement
- Type
- inkjet prints
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bernard J. Kleina and Susan Keleher Kleina
- Object number
- 2013.140.21
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Bernard J. Kleina
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.