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Fleeing the scene: Two Negro girls run from a Detroit shop as a national guardsman, bayoneted rifle at the ready, one of 8,000 in the embattled city, looks on
Fleeing the scene: Two Negro girls run from a Detroit shop as a national guardsman, bayoneted rifle at the ready, one of 8,000 in the embattled city, looks on

Fleeing the scene: Two Negro girls run from a Detroit shop as a national guardsman, bayoneted rifle at the ready, one of 8,000 in the embattled city, looks on

Date7/24/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Fleeing the scene: Two Negro girls run from a Detroit shop as a national guardsman; bayoneted rifle at the ready; one of 8;000 in the embattled city; looks on.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0013578F
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