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Cultural Scrapbook #3: Attica!
Also in 1971, the Attica Prison action seeking improved prisoner treatment took place. 31 prisoners and 9 guards were killed when the action was eventually ended by the National Guard, prison guards, and local police.
Cultural Scrapbook #2: Those lucky, lucky Swiss ladies
Get this: Swiss women got the right to vote in freaking 1971! Dude.
Cultural Scrapbook #1: The experiment begins
I got the idea to idea to “create a visual anthology” of the year I was born — 1971 — from this item on kottke.
First up, the publication of The Pentagon Papers.