The May Day rally, in words and pictures By Jim Shelton April 29, 2015 Henry “Sam” Chauncey may not have been the most radical character associated with the 1970 May Day rally on the New Haven Green, but the Yale-blue gentleman certainly had some far-out ideas. Unlike most of the 20,000 to 30,000 hippies, yippies, and Yalies at the rally, Chauncey was not on a mission to protest or speak truth to power. His charge was to implement a bold idea that kept a peaceful demonstration from becoming a violent, national spectacle. In the spring of 1970, protesters from around the country talked of converging on New Haven to decry the arrest of Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, who was being put on trial for allegedly ordering the murder of fellow Panther Alex Rackley. Yale would provide a focal poin
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