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A woman protesting the Vietnam War during the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. Women were a large part of the anti-war movement, even though they were sometimes relegated to second-class status within the organizations or faced sexism within opposition groups. [83]
May. Anti-Vietnam war protests in England and Australia. September 21. War Resisters League organizes first U.S. protest against the Vietnam War and "anti-Buddhist terrorism" by the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese regime with a demonstration at the US Mission to the UN in New York City. [3] October 9.
A group known as the "May Day Tribe" [4] was formed: it was made up of Yippies and others among the more militant members of the anti-war movement. It was decided that small groups of protesters would block major intersections and bridges in the capital under the slogan, "If the government won't stop the war, we'll stop the government."
The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a massive demonstration and teach-in across the United States against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.It took place on October 15, 1969, [1] followed a month later, on November 15, 1969, by a large Moratorium March in Washington, D.C.
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 ...
The killings shocked the U.S. and galvanized the anti-war movement. Initially charged in an Army court martial for 102 deaths, Calley was sentenced to life in prison in 1971 for the killing of 22 ...
The 1967 March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War that took place on October 21, 1967. The event began with more than 100,000 protesters at a rally near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C..
The nationwide student anti-war strike of 1970 was a massive outpouring of anti-Vietnam War protests that erupted in May of 1970 in response to the expansion of the war into neighboring Cambodia. The strike began on May 1 with walk-outs from college and high school classrooms on nearly 900 campuses across the United States. [1]