Text transcribed from caption: PC 39354 TRIES TO CALM CROWD CHICAGO -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was among five persons arrested in a rock-throwing confrontation between blacks and police on the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago, uses a police microphone in an attempt to quiet demonstrators. Mr. Jackson and four others were arrested when they refused to lead a group of about 600 demonstrators away from a construction site on the campus. They had gone their to press their demands for jobs for blacks at Chicago construction sites. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-9B-69-FPC)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1969
circa September 12, 1969

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago.
Clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists.
African American clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Discrimination in employment--Illinois--Chicago.
Police--Illinois--Chicago.
Arrest--Illinois--Chicago.

United States.
Illinois
Chicago.
United States
Chicago (Ill.)
North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Cook--Chicago

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RNS RG 1, image no. PC 39354; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_PC-39354

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