Day of protest, night of violence, the Century City peace march

Description:

This was the official ACLU report on the largest (and bloodiest) police riot in the history of Los Angeles. Unlike the earlier, largely anti chicano "zoot suit" riots of the forties - the LAPD was not merely standing back as violence occurred, but pro-actively participated in a well-organized, physical, bloody assault on what was to be a peaceful demonstration against the war in Vietnam. For the first time police violence was openly directed against largely, white middle class marchers in an act of open repression against popular political dissent. Of all the protests in Los Angeles, this one in particular marked a tipping point in the anti-war movement not only in California, but across the nation.

subjects: History,  LAPD,  Lyndon Johnson,  Progressive Labor Party,  Protest movements,  Revolutionary Youth Movement,  Riots,  Spring Mobilization Against the War,  Students for a Democratic Society,  Vietnam Day Committee,  Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,  anti-war demonstrations,  civil protest,  police riot,  Vietnam War, 1961-1975

People: Anthony Andalman,  Janet King,  Jerry Palmer,  Lyndon Johnson,  Stephen Lippman,  Thomas Reddin,  UCLA,  Vietnam Day Committee

Places: California,  Cheviot Hills Park,  Los Angeles,  Los Angeles (Calif.),  UCLA,  West Los Angeles,  Westwood Village

Times: 1967,  height of anti-Vietnam War movement in Los Angeles.