Troops Guard Dupont Circle: Mayday 1971
Troops guard Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. after protesters are arrested and driven off Monday, May 3, 1971 when attempting to blockade streets and close down the federal government.
Dupont Circle was utilized as a temporary make-shift detention area by police until transportation arrived to take those arrested to other makeshift camps at the D.C. jail exercise yard and a football practice field near RFK Stadium.
[It was] “…decisive opposition to mob force, we will see an end to the extremist practice of running roughshod over the rights of others.” –Atty. General John Mitchell commenting on the Mayday protests, Washington Star, 5/10/71. Mitchell was later jailed for his role in the Watergate spying scandal.
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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Troops Guard Dupont Circle: Mayday 1971
Troops guard Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. after protesters are arrested and driven off Monday, May 3, 1971 when attempting to blockade streets and close down the federal government.
Dupont Circle was utilized as a temporary make-shift detention area by police until transportation arrived to take those arrested to other makeshift camps at the D.C. jail exercise yard and a football practice field near RFK Stadium.
[It was] “…decisive opposition to mob force, we will see an end to the extremist practice of running roughshod over the rights of others.” –Atty. General John Mitchell commenting on the Mayday protests, Washington Star, 5/10/71. Mitchell was later jailed for his role in the Watergate spying scandal.
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.