On the front lines: Baltimore photographers recall documenting 1968 riots – Baltimore Sun

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On the front lines: Baltimore photographers recall documenting 1968 riots

Baltimore’s photographers were on the front lines during the four days and three nights of rioting in which six people were killed and 700 injured. Here are their stories.

via baltimoresun.com: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-fe-mlk-riots-photographers-20180322-story.html

Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr. was a photographer for the Baltimore Afro-American on April 6, 1968 when the paper received notice that what later would be described as spontaneous riots were about to break out.