<I>Routed by Tear Gas</I>
date: label: Date
content: July 1966
name: label: Photograph by
content: United Press International, American, founded 1907
notes: label: Description
content: Captured during the March Against Fear in Canton, Mississippi, this black-and-white photograph depicts marchers running out of a tent after it has been attacked with tear gas by Mississippi state troopers. Many people are falling to the ground or trying to flee as clouds of the gas rise around them and from beneath the tent canopy. A yellow paper with a typed description of the event is attached to the bottom of the photograph.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Canton, Madison County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Police brutality
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1961-1969
label: Topic
content: Violence
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Civil Rights Movement
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard Greenberg Gallery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.169.5
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 6 3/16 x 8 11/16 in. (15.7 x 22.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 7 1/16 x 9 1/16 in. (17.9 x 23 cm)