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At the time of the protest, women still did not enjoy many of the same freedoms and rights as men. Despite the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibited pay discrimination between two people who performed the same job, women comparatively earned 59 cents for every dollar a man made for similar work. [4]
When the poster came out a few weeks later, in late December 1969, the image was still quite shocking and new to most viewers but already becoming a defining image of the My Lai Massacre and U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. [4] The message of the poster was that American soldiers were killing babies in Vietnam, and therefore that the war was immoral.
It documents two protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street in New York City and Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest in Washington, D.C. The numerous camera operators do impromptu interviews with the protesters and the spectators.
The 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., protesting the United States' continuing involvement in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5. In all, more than 12,000 people were arrested, in what was the largest mass arrest ...
In the days before the riot, there were anti-war protests on Wall Street and smaller clashes between construction workers and anti-war demonstrators. As a show of sympathy for the dead students, New York Mayor John Lindsay , a Republican , ordered all flags at New York City Hall to be flown at half-staff on May 8, the day of the riot.
Winter Soldier Investigation testimonies were read into the Congressional Record by Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR). In 1972, VVAW continued antiwar protests, and released Winter Soldier, a 16mm black-and-white documentary film showing participants giving testimony at the 1971 hearing, as well as footage of the Dewey Canyon III week of protest ...
Ceylonese protests against the Vietnam War; H. Honor America Day; P. 1970 Polish protests; T. Taiyuan Incident; W. Women's Strike for Equality
Many veterans and servicemen began involving themselves in anti-war marches, and rebellions in military stockades. [9] At the Presidio of San Francisco a protest was staged by servicemen after another soldier was shot for walking away from a work detail. [10] During the protest a group of AWOL soldiers returned to base to join the demonstration.