Text transcribed from caption: PC-40037 WHITES ATTACK SCHOOL BUSES LAMAR, S.C. -- South Carolina highway patrolmen walk past an overturned and damaged school bus after a mob of angry whites, armed with ax handles and baseball bats, attacked buses bringing Negro children to the once-white Lamar High School. Police had to use tear gas to drive the mob away but three buses were damaged. Several Negro children sustained injuries from flying glass or tear gas. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-3A-70-DS)

West, Luke. (photographer)
United Press International. (publisher)

1970
March 3, 1970

still image

photographs

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

Religious News Service--Archives.

Civil rights movements--United States.
School integration--South Carolina--Lamar.
Busing for school integration--South Carolina--Lamar.
School buses--South Carolina--Lamar.
Racism--South Carolina--Lamar.
Police--South Carolina--Lamar.
African American children--Violence against--South Carolina--Lamar.

United States.
South Carolina
Lamar.
United States
Lamar (S.C.)
North and Central America--United States--South Carolina--Darlington--Lamar

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