Sitting Bull Vietnam War Protest Poster May Day 1971 Washington DC Original

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an original May Day1971  civil disobedience poster, anti Vietnam war
features Sitting Bull and a powerful quote
been in my attic for years...and years
soiling,  chips and tears, tape residue at top and bottom
Good overall.
about 17" x 22"
photoed under plexiglass- sorry for the glare
mailed in a mailing tube. plexiglass not included
The 1971 May Day protests were a series of large scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest agasint the Vietnam War
These began on Monday morning, May 3 rd, and ended on May 5th. Over 25,000 young people set out to do something brash and extraordinary- disrupt the federal government thorugh non violent actions a
There was an elaborate tactical manual distributed in advance and detailed 21 key bridges and trafiic circles for protestirs to blockst ma
More than 12.000 people were arrested, the largest mass arrest in US history
Though still peaceful in intent, the 1971 protest represented a radical escalation from, for example, the November 15, 1969 march on DC
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Members of the Nixon administration would come to view the events as damaging, because the government's response was perceived as violating citizens' civil rights. The deicision was made to sewwp them all up, using not just police but actual military forces
Non smoking home with a cat and a dog
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Thank you.
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