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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 ]
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 ...
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.
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.
These Vietnam War protests also empowered the student body and gave them a voice in administrative decisions. More protests on different university subjects occurred throughout the 1960s and into the next decades, such as the Black Action Movement and student housing protests. Today, many University of Michigan students are involved in ...
The war in Vietnam dragged on for another seven years, culminating in the fall of Saigon in 1975. But the university did halt construction of the gym in Morningside Park and sever ties with the ...
The rest of the world helped create the current mess, back at the end of World War I. We must also help find a way to resolve it. I was a student during Vietnam.
Three days after the melee, students marched on the state capitol to protest the Vietnam War, Dow Chemical on campus, and police violence. [6] The university chancellor posted bail for all those arrested at the protest. [7] The Wisconsin state assembly eventually passed an ordinance demanding that all protestors be expelled. [8]