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Youth riot in Lincoln Park

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Armed with nightsticks policemen subdue nearly 1,000 rioting, rock-throwing youngsters in Lincoln Park, near the merry-go-round. Photo dated: February 23, 1940.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. California
  3. Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
  4. Los Angeles
  5. Riots
  6. Youth

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