Activists Began a 19-month Occupation of Alcatraz Island (nov 20, 1969 – nov 20, 1969)
Description:
a fleet of wooden sailboats holding 90 Native Americans landed on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. For the next 19 months, the group occupied the island, hoping to reclaim the rock “in the name of all American Indians.”The occupiers’ list of demands included the return of Alcatraz to the American Indians and sufficient funding to build, maintain, and operate an Indian cultural complex and a university.https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/native-american-activism-1960s-to-present/
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Date:
nov 20, 1969
nov 20, 1969
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