Women March After Eviction from Park: Mayday 1971

The Mayday women are shown at 17th & G Streets NW in Washington DC on a march through the city during the evening of May 2, 1971 after police evicted Mayday demonstrators earlier in the day from the park being used as their base.

 

Police revoked the demonstration permit before discussing the issue with protest leaders as required in the demonstration agreement. It was later determined that the highest levels of the U.S. government, including President Richard Nixon, were involved in the decision

 

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.

 

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May 5: coming soon

 

 

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

 

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