stop the draft week

10/20/67

Youthful draft protesters hold signs and flags.

10/18/67

Tribune caption reads, "Protester hauled by feet to paddy wagon. One of scores arrested in today's demonstration."

10/18/67

Police clear the way for employees to enter Oakland's Armed Services Induction Center.

10/18/67

Oakland police officers hold protesters at bay in front of the Oakland Armed Services Induction Center. The police appear to be leading people into a paddy wagon. A sign hung on a building on...

10/18/67

In front of the Oakland Armed Services Induction Center, police arrest an African American draft protester and haul him into a paddy wagon.

10/18/67

Joan Baez is led away from her sit-in in front of the Oakland Armed Services Induction Center by several Oakland police officers. She carries a flower in her right hand.

10/18/67

Joan Baez -- draft protester, folk singer, apple eater -- sits in front of the entrance to the Armed Services Induction Center with a group of other protesters.

10/18/67

A man with eyeglasses and a beard that screams 1967 wears a robe and holds a cup of coffee and some unidentified pastry while other anti-draft protesters mill about nearby.

10/18/67

Police clear the street (Clay?) of protesters.

10/17/67

Fish-eye view of intersection of 16th and Clay Streets in downtown Oakland. Police officers have cordoned off the intersection, holding draft protesters at bay.

10/16/67

Protesters including Joan Baez block the entrance to the Armed Services Induction Center on Clay Street, Oakland.

Handwritten on back, "Joan Baez overparked." In the foreground of the...

10/16/67

Protesters including Joan Baez block the entrance to the Armed Services Induction Center on Clay Street, Oakland.

10/16/67

Oakland police officers keep crowds of protesters at bay as they negotiate with a group that is blocking the entrance to the Induction Center.

10/16/67

Oakland police officers fill up a paddy wagon with arrested demonstrators.

10/16/67

Protesters -- including one elderly lady -- clock the entrance to Oakland's Armed Services Induction Center.

10/16/67

Handwritten on back, "Inductees." A line of young men make their way past a protective line of Oakland police officers wearing riot helmets and carrying night sticks.

10/16/67

Protesters including Joan Baez block the entrance to the Armed Services Induction Center on Clay Street, Oakland.

10/20/67

A crowd of demonstrators congregates in a parking lot somewhere in downtown Oakland. Several people are standing on the top of nearby buildings. One man scales a wooden fence.

04/23/68

A crowd of demonstrators lines the street of Oakland as a cortege of police motorcycles passes by. One demonstrator, wearing a "Free Huey" [P. Newton] button, has a wooden shield attached to one...

04/23/68

Photograph of large group of protestors and police officers in front of the Alameda County Court House. In the foreground there is a man wearing a black coat, hat, and gloves, apparently yelling...

17-Jan-67

The flyer encourages people to participate in the Stop the Draft Week activities, specifically David Harris' refusal of induction into the army. On the revese side, the flyer is addressed to...

20-Oct-67

New inductees make their way from their bus into the Armed Services Induction Center in downtown Oakland. Police, journalists, and protesters occupy the scene.

20-Oct-67

A car with flattened tires blocks passage on Clay Street(?) in downtown Oakland.

20-Oct-67

Four counter-protesters try to remove a Volkswagen Beetle from the middle of a downtown road. The car had been left with its tires deflated as a roadblock for the buses on their way to the Armed...

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