Text transcribed from caption: PC-31137 FIREMEN ROUT DEMONSTRATORS IN CHURCH TUSCALOOSA, Ala.-Firemen use high pressure water hoses to rout Negro demonstrators who took refuge in a Baptist church in Tuscaloosa. Some of them retaliated by throwing sticks, bottles, stones and other missiles from the building. Later police fired tear gas shells into the church. More than 90 persons were arrested as police blocked a march into the downtown area. Barred on the ground that they had received no permit to march, about 500 demonstrators retreated into the church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-5B-64-NAB)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1964
June 9, 1964

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
First African Baptist Church (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Southern Baptist Convention.

Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Tuscaloosa.
Civil rights movements--United States.
African American churches--Alabama--Tuscaloosa.
Church buildings--Alabama--Tuscaloosa.
Police brutality--Alabama--Tuscaloosa.

Alabama
Tuscaloosa.
United States.
Tuscaloosa (Ala.)

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