1971 May Day Protests

The 1971 May Day Protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. These began on May Day of that year, continued with similar intensity into the morning of the third day, then rapidly diminished through several following days. Most members of the Nixon Administrationwould come to view the events as damaging, because the government's response led to mass arrests and were perceived as violating rights.