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Peace Marchers Attacked At NYC May Day Parade

Reel Number: 220990-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1951

Country: USA

Location: New York City

TC Begins: 03:08:51

TC Ends: 03:10:37

Duration: 00:01:46

Peace Marchers Attacked At NYC May Day Parade 8th Avenue May Day Parade, NYC, people in crowd yelling. People pass w/ large banner ‘Bronx United May Day Committee’, followed by Communist sympathisers? w/ placards. Police arrest anti-Communists. Boys in crowd throw stones at marchers. Groups pass holding ‘Civil Liberties’ flags and banner w/ ‘Wall St. Made $???,000 Profit in World War II: No Wonder Wall St. Pushes For World War III’. 03:09:49 Marchers attacked, ‘Demand Peace’ banner torn down, crowd becomes unruly, spills into street; Elgin Theatre in BG. Marchers w/ ‘Manhattan Jewish Organisation For Peace’ banner attacked. Boy in crowd throws something at marching band, aware of camera. Good. Anti-Communism. McCarthyism. Civil rights.

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