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Cortright documents in detail the many ways GIs found to resist the military and the war at bases all around the world. We learn about the evening of August 23, 1968 when over 100 Black soldiers gathered on Fort Hood to discuss the prevalent racism they experienced in the Army and their opposition to ongoing preparations for their use against ...
May 12. Twelve young men in New York publicly burn their draft cards to protest the war – the first such act of war resistance. [5] [6] Fall. Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley defends the right of students to carry out political organizing on campus. Founder: Mario Savio. Early August.
The 1967 March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War that took place on October 21, 1967. The event began with more than 100,000 protesters at a rally near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. .
An anti-Vietnam War protest in Netherlands in July 1966. February – a group of about 100 veterans attempted to return their military decorations to the White House in protest of the war, but were turned back. March 26 – anti-war demonstrations were held around the country and the world, with 20,000 taking part in New York City.
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 situations of the protesters.
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]
Vietnam Veteran Throwing Medal at the U.S. Capital. On April 23, 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged what was arguably "one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement" as hundreds of Vietnam veterans, dressed in combat fatigues and well worn uniforms, stepped up, and angrily, one after another for three straight hours, hurled their military medals, ribbons ...
Unlike the protests at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August 1968 which led to a police riot, the Moratorium marches on October 15 were completely peaceful, attended by families and people of all ages and faiths, with the main theme being grief and sorrow over the war, instead of anger and rage. [7]