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Fire Started in Harlem
Fire Started in Harlem

Fire Started in Harlem

Alternate Titles
  • Fire Started in Harlem: New York firemen battle a blaze in the city's Harlem district last night in a furniture store. The store was looted and set afire in the [African American] neighborhood after it was learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King had been killed
Publisher (American, founded 1846)
Date1968
ClassificationsPhotograph
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. (17.1 x 22.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Will Potter
Object number2023.455
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