Last Stop Before Wounded Knee 1973

Custer Protest 1973 “Last Stop Before Wounded Knee“ On February 6 1973, AIM protest 200 strong in Custer, South Dakota, after a white man accused of killing an Indian in a barroom brawl was charged with INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. AIM met with local officials, but when the slain man’s mother, Sarah Bad Heart Bull, tried to enter the courthouse, she and other Native Americans were beaten by the police. A riot ensued, in which AIM members set fire to police cars and the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE office.