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James Peck (December 19, 1914 – July 12, 1993 [1] [2]) was an American activist who practiced nonviolent resistance during World War II [3] and in the Civil Rights Movement. He is the only person who participated in both the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 and the first Freedom Ride of 1961, [ 4 ] and has been called a white civil rights ...
The protest music that came out of the Vietnam War era was stimulated by the unfairness of the draft, the loss of American lives in Vietnam, and the unsupported expansion of war. The Vietnam War era (1955–1975) was a time of great controversy for the American public. Desperate to stop the spread of communism in South-East Asia, the United ...
The Vietnam War: 1936: Johnny Johnson: Kurt Weill: World War I: 1959: The Sound of Music: Rodgers & Hammerstein: World War II: 1989: Miss Saigon: Claude-Michel Schönberg: The Vietnam War: 2016: Mula Sa Buwan: Myke Salomon: World War II: 1963: Oh, What a Lovely War! Joan Littlewood: World War I
Jeff Sharlet (1942–1969) – American journalist and anti-Vietnam war soldier; Gene Sharp (1928–2018) – American writer on non-violent resistance, founder of the Albert Einstein Institution; H. James Shea Jr. (1939–1970) – American politician and anti-Vietnam War activist
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.
Muste became involved in trade union activity in 1919, when he took an active part as a leader of a 16-week-long textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. [19] Workers in the mills worked an average of 54 hours a week, at an average rate of just over 20 cents per hour, and were threatened with a loss of income by an uncompensated cut of working hours. [20]
James C. McCloughan (born April 30, 1946) is a former United States Army soldier and a Vietnam War veteran. For his actions during the war, McCloughan was approved for the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning in December 2016.
Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 is a book written by James T. Fisher, providing a historical discussion of Thomas Anthony Dooley III, an American medical missionary who worked in Vietnam and Laos in the 1950s and early 1960s. The book itself is viewed not only as a statement on Dooley's "lives" as a medical missionary ...