Back to gallery

Lone Cop at Arena Gazes at Detainees: Mayday 1971

A lone police officer at the Washington Coliseum in front of several thousand detainees swept up during mass arrests during Mayday antiwar protests May 3, 1971.

 

“The Army donated blankets about 2 a.m.” —Unidentified defense attorney, Washington Daily News, 5/5/1971.

 

The Mayday Tribe, a loose knit group of individuals, collectives and affinity groups, organized an attempt to shut down the U.S. government in Washington, D.C. in protest of the continued war in Indochina May 3-5, 1971 through the use of non violence civil disobedience.

 

For more information and additional images, see

 

May 1: flic.kr/s/aHsk5GV1JM

May 2: flic.kr/s/aHsk5CKtKq

May 3: flic.kr/s/aHsk5bjYqk

May 4: flic.kr/s/aHsk64GugT

May 5: flic.kr/s/aHsk8e3sU3

 

Photographer is unknown. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

 

3,263 views
5 faves
0 comments
Uploaded on October 31, 2014
Taken on May 3, 1971