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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 ]
The student activist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held its first anti-Vietnam War protest rally in Washington, DC. [1] It was co-sponsored by Women's Strike for Peace. [2] 12,000-20,000 attended, including Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Phil Ochs. [3] [4] [1] The host was I. F. Stone. [5]
A Vietnam War veteran throwing his medal at the US Capitol An anti-Vietnam War protest in Washington D.C., on April 24, 1971 A rally in support of the Vietnamese people at the Moskvitch factory in 1973. April 23 – Vietnam veterans threw away over 700 medals on the West Steps of the Capitol building. The next day, anti-war organizers claimed ...
Four students died and nine others were wounded during student protests against the Vietnam War. Clouds of dust at the far left of the photo near the sidewalk show bullets hitting the ground.
When everyone fears the same things. During the Vietnam protests, one might have seen a counter-protester calling demonstrators commies. By the 1970s, most Americans opposed the war (though an ...
Protests in Japan, organized by socialist student group Zengakuren, were held against the Vietnam War starting 17 January, coinciding with the visit of the USS Enterprise to Sasebo. [20] In May, violent student protests erupted at multiple Japanese universities, having started earlier in the year from disputes between faculty and students for ...
With antiwar activism exploding across America, these student actions became part of a long linage of campus protest movements, including those during the Vietnam War in the ‘60s and the anti ...
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.