Untitled (Separating Strikers)
Artist
Unknown Maker
Date1970
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 × 9 1/4 in. (15.2 × 23.5 cm)
Support: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Paige Pinnell, 2011
Object number2011.14.3
DescriptionA march marshall separating pro-war protesters from the anti-war marchers.eMuseum Notes
No title (Strike Marshall) depicts a student marshal separating a crowd to prevent the a pro-war individual from attacking the anti-war protesters. From a series of gelatin silver photographs by unidentified photography students documenting the May, 1970, strike at the University of New Mexico. The strike occurred after four antiwar students at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen while protesting the invasion of Cambodia by the United States military during the Viet Nam War. The photographs culminate with the bayonetting of thirteen individuals, however, none were killed.
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