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Smoke signal from a tormented city
Smoke signal from a tormented city

Smoke signal from a tormented city

Date7/27/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Smoke Signal from a tormented city. This fire in Detroit, one of hundreds, symbolizes the continuing, bloody conflict that Negro leaders feel will erupt in more and more U.S. cities.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0013583F
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
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Nazi John Beattie, Standing, Banned In City Park, Ald
Nazi John Beattie, Standing, Banned In City Park, Ald
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Renowned Van Doos - Members of the French-speaking Royal 22nd Regiment - stand on guard outside Montreal's city hall today maintaining a shaky peace a(...)
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Montreal police found a little time last night between fending off a march by students and militant cab drivers at city hall to give this boy and his (...)
Montreal police found a little time last night between fending off a march by students and militant cab drivers at city hall to give this boy and his (...)
10/10/1969
Chicago cabby Leroy Beauregard inspects Negro ghetto's Wall of Respect, painted by neighborhood art students last year in the city's south side
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Sentences from five to seven years' improvement for stimulating social unrest were imposed on 11 of 121 students arrested in demonstrations. Shanghai (...)
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Dividing the crowd, Anti-riot police at Ontario Place last Monday used a technique of dividing the crowd so they were less likely to take cues from each other, police say
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Policeman pins student after his hat was knocked off, Hundreds in melee tried to prevent police from arresting friends
Policeman pins student after his hat was knocked off, Hundreds in melee tried to prevent police from arresting friends
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