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March 29, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee: National guardsmen
brandishing bayonets block civil rights activists trying to stage
a protest on Beale Street. The marching demonstrators,
wearing signs which read ‘I Am A Man’, were also flanked
by tanks. Photograph © Bettman/Corbis.

h/t (Notes on) Politics, Theory, and Photography.

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   lowendtheory: March 29, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee: National guardsmen brandishing...block...

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    tanks. motherfucking tanks.

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    Look what a threat these demonstrating black men are perceived to be. It’s not even enough to have tanks rolling next to...

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