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The 1969 People's Park protest, also known as Bloody Thursday, took place at People's Park on May 15, 1969. The Berkeley Police Department and other officers clashed with protestors over the site of the park, using deadly force. Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California, eventually sent in the state National Guard to quell the protests.
Brown, who was 25 years old in 1969, was a former divinity student who had worked hard as a campaign volunteer for Senator McCarthy in 1968, developed the concept of the moratorium protests. [5] Brown felt that protests should take place in communities rather than on university campuses so that "the heartland folks felt it belonged to them". [5]
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.
When: Nov. 15, 1969 Why : More than 500,000 people marched on Washington in protest of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. By the end of 1969, around 45,000 Americans had been killed in the conflict.
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By MORGAN WHITAKER Forty five years ago Saturday, more than a quarter million Americans descended on Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War. Demonstrations and marches were common in this ...
During the early 1969 Be-In/Peace Rally, The Village Voice reported that there was said to be between 15,000 and 20,000 people in attendance. This be-in became more radical than the other be-ins that previously took place in Central Park, as bonfires erupted. One person described Sheep Meadow as having "the aura of a bombed out battlefield".
As protests by college students against the war in Gaza continue, Flashback republishes an account of one of Detroit’s largest peace rallies. From the Free Press archive: In 1969, thousands ...