The Sixties Catalogue

9 J u l y 2 0 2 0 12 Original UPI Photographs Relating To The 1967 Race Riots 7. (CIVIL RIGHTS) UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL. Photographs of governmental deliberations on the “race riots” of 1967. New York, 1967. 12 original glossy photographic prints. $850. Click for more info Twelve original UPI captioned photographs of meetings and events during the “long hot summer” of 1967, in which riots were reported in 128 American cities. “The summer of 1967 marked the apex of a cycle of ‘urban unrest’ that began during the mid-1960s in Harlem and Watts... The underlying causes were quite complex, including police brutality, persistent poverty, and a lack of political representation for African American residents” (Rutgers University). President Johnson’s Kerner Commissionwas taskedwith investigating anddeveloping aplan for preventing future riots. These photographs include several of the commission, one of a damaged corner in Newark, one of H. Rap Brown and Dick Gregory, and three of rural African-American poverty in the South. Fine condition.