Sunday (1961)

Dan Drasins documentary short shot in a single afternoon in 1961 is often cited as the first major social protest film of the Sixties When 19yearold Drasin and his friends joined folk singers and protesters in Greenwich Villages Washington Square Park they confronted NYC authorities to protest the cancellation of a standing permit to gather and sing in the park on Sundays Here are the first signs of the political racial and cultural issues that would soon erupt during the decade