Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: ROGERS, Kenneth
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.270779

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Sunset Strip Riots / 12-66-1328; handwritten: Watts Riot / 1968 [crossed out]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / Ken Rogers [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR; typed label: Kids harassing motorist, Excepting one westbound lane, / Sunset Blvd. was blocked by youths (in front of Pandora’s / Box), each vehicle was stopped and the kids joked with the / drivers, but if the driver showed any hostility they would / rock the car and cover it with eggs. This started at 10 p.m. / and went on till 11 p.m. when the police came [sic[; handwritten: 11-18-1 / 35

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: RIOTS-CIVIL RIGHTS / SUNSET STRIP RIOTS
Retouching: N