Book VIII Print 21: Crowds watching the May Day parade, including Fidel CastroYale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives1960 May 1engspaTaken at the height of the afternoon sun, these images show the massive crowd assembled to watch the military and civic parade that began the May Day rally and celebration held in Havana's Plaza Cívica on May 1, 1960. Second and third sets of frames show a parade of marchers carrying the flags of Latin American nations. The final sets of frames show Fidel Castro, Osvaldo Dorticós and other unidentified officials observing the parade from the speakers' platform at the the base of the national monument to José Martí. See also Print 23.