Detainees Bed Down for Night: Mayday 1971

Those swept up in mass arrests on May 3, 1971 during demonstrations attempting to shut down the federal government are shown bedded down at a makeshift detention facility at the Washington Coliseum waiting for possible release in the morning.

 

“Sure we knew he (owner Jack Ferrari) was over his head, but no one was sick, we got no complaints about the food whatsoever.” –An anonymous “high police official” commenting on the lack of food for arrested protesters, The Washington Star, 5/9/73.

 

 

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.

 

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Photo by John Bowden. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

 

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