On the evening of April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon informed the nation that U.S. forces were expanding the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Over the following days, protests and strikes against this move erupted at colleges and in cities throughout the country. In Seattle, the University of Washington Student Mobilization Committee got a permit for a march from the U.S. Courthouse to the Federal Building. The Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) joined in the protest, which grew to 1,000 people by the time it ended. Nine people were arrested.
Here, SLF members and others march in downtown traffic on May 1. One carries a sign protesting Boeing’s involvement in the war effort, plus the incarceration of anarchist Martin Sostre, who had been imprisoned on charges later learned to have been engineered by the FBI.
Caption information source: The Seattle Times, May 1, 1970, page 56 Caption information source: The Seattle Times, May 21, 1970, page 11
ID Number: 2000.107.153.21.01
Date: 1970
Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.
