Unforgettable Change: 1960s: Protest Marches Grow Into The Antiwar Movement
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Police officers clash with draft protestors in downtown Oakland. October 20, 1967. Bill Crouch, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
While the planners for Oakland's Stop the Draft Week believed they were moving from a strategy of protest to resistance, many were surprised, according to Todd Gitlin, "at how brutal the cops turned out to be…these notorious radicals had remained innocent about what the authorities would do about a threat to the smooth running of the draft machine." The people in the streets that week in October 1967 did succeed momentarily in stopping the buses on their way to the Oakland Induction Center.