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In January, police used clubs on 400 anti-war/anti-Vietnam protesters outside of a dinner for U.S. Secretary of State Rusk. [10] In February, students from Harvard, Radcliffe, and Boston University held a four-day hunger strike to protest the Vietnam war. [11] Ten thousand West Berlin students held a sit-in against American involvement in ...
The fewer numbers of soldiers as an effect of the opposition to the war also can be traced to the protests against the ROTC programs in colleges. Zinn argues this by stating, "Student protests against the ROTC resulted in the canceling of those programs in over forty colleges and universities. In 1966, 191,749 college students enrolled in ROTC.
The 1968 convention, with its images of anti-Vietnam War protesters being attacked by Chicago police and fistfights in the convention hall that filled Americans’ televisions, has become a ...
The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August 23 to August 29, 1968, and drew an estimated 7,000 to ...
The early 1970s saw multiple protests against American involvement in the Vietnam War, like this one in 1970, the 48-hour Fast for Peace in Rochester. ... Vietnam draft protests in 1968, the ...
Columbia University’s graduating class of 1968 was no stranger to protests. The college years of its student body were marked by the anti-Vietnam War movement and the fight for civil rights.
Protest against the Vietnam War in Amsterdam in April 1968. Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The protests were part of a movement in opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. The majority of the protests were in the United States, but some took place around the world.
Protesters clash during a demonstration against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War held in front of the White House in Washington on May 11, 1970 and following a shooting at Kent ...