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Title: Police shakedown during Watts Riot
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Cicero, Dave
Date Created and/or Issued: 1965
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Police shakedown African Americans after stopping their car at Florence Avenue and Hoover Street. The suspects were taken to the police station when suits of all different sizes were found in the truck of their car. Photo dated: August 10, 1965.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041016
Herald Examiner Collection
HE-002-561 4x5; HE box 1993.
CARL0000044935
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12736
Subject: Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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