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In the early morning of Thursday, May 15, 1969, local police cleared the park, arresting three people who refused to leave. [12] [13] University work crews arrived later, destroyed many of the changes that had been made to the park, and erected an 8-foot (2.4-metre)-tall perimeter chain-link wire fence around the site.
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 ...
From an 1848 Finger Lakes tea party that inspired women to push for the 19th Amendment and their right to vote to Vietnam War protests of the 1960s and '70s to today's pro-Palestinian ...
The protesters then made their way from Central Park to the U.N., where speeches were given by several leaders including Benjamin Spock, James Bevel, and Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King declared that the war in Vietnam was a "conflict against a coloured people" and that "white Americans are not going to deal in the problems of coloured people ...
In response to student demonstrations over the closure of People's Park in 1969, Gov. Ronald Reagan called in the National Guard to restore order on the UC Berkeley campus.
An anti-Vietnam War protest at Florida State University in 1970. A further effect of the opposition was that many college campuses were completely shut down due to protests. These protests led to wear on the government who tried to mitigate the tumultuous behavior and return the colleges back to normal.
The Presidio mutiny was the first of a number of protests and riots that drew attention to anti-war dissent within the military. [1] The Presidio 27 were supported broadly within the growing anti-Vietnam War movement. The case also brought press investigation of the conditions at the stockade [7] and of the