US IB English-The Things They Carried: Vietnam War Protests

• Vietnam War Protests - History.com
• Vietnam War - Student Activism - University of Washington
• Vietnam War Protests

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• The Anti-War Movement - USHistory.org
• The My Lai Massacre

  A turning point in political, military, and public opinion of the war.

• From the Archives: 1967 antiwar protest turns violent

  On June 23, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson arrived at Century City to deliver a speech at a Democratic Party fundraiser. Ten thousand anti-Vietnam War protesters also arrived.

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• The March on the Pentagon: An Oral History

  Fifty years ago, tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington to protest the Vietnam War. Here are some of their stories.

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• The First U of M Teach-In (March 1965)

  As the U.S. became increasingly militarized in Vietnam, a select group of University of Michigan professors formed the Faculty Committee to Stop the War in Vietnam. Their goal was to organize a “work moratorium,” or a strike, in opposition of the ‘moral, political, and military consequences’ of the war and to get their colleagues as well as students involved.

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• The March on Washington

  On April 17, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D.C., with about 25,000 protesters.

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• The Selective Service Office Sit-In (October 1965)

  On October 15, 1965, the first large scale act of civil disobedience in opposition to the Vietnam War occurred when approximately 40 people staged a sit-in at the Ann Arbor, Michigan draft board. They were sentenced to 10 to 15 days in jail.

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• “We Will Not Be Part of this Unjust, Immoral, and Illegal War”: Remembering the Fort Hood Three

  Three army privates, known as the "Fort Hood Three", refused to deploy in Vietnam, calling the war "illegal and immoral", and were sentenced to prison terms.

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• How this 1967 Vietnam war protest carried the seeds of American division

  The marchers who converged on the Pentagon 50 years ago placed flowers in soldiers’ guns but also opened up a cultural faultline that persists to this day

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• Maine Voices: History lesson vindicates students protesting national anthem

  In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of public school students in Iowa who had worn black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. That decision still resonates today.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence
Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:

I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here tonight, and how very delighted I am to see you expressing your concern about the issues that will be discussed tonight by turning out in such large numbers. I also want to say that I consider it a great honor to share this program with Dr. Bennett, Dr. Commager, and Rabbi Heschel, and some of the distinguished leaders and personalities of our nation. And of course it’s always good to come back to Riverside church. Over the last eight years, I have had the privilege of preaching here almost every year in that period, and it is always a rich and rewarding experience to come to this great church and this great pulpit. To hear or read the full speech, click HERE.

• Vietnam War: Draft Resistance

  This page includes a short history, documents, and over two hundred photographs of the draft resistance movement in the Northwest (of the USA)
• CBC Digital Archive: Draft Dodgers

  This links to the Canadian Broadcasting Commission archived footage. There are several useful interviews and reports to look at ... try "seeking sanctuary"
• Draft Dodging is now acceptable

  Guardian newspaper article from 1966
• War Resistance: amnesty and exile- just the facts

  The reality of the Vietnam Era is that large numbers of people resisted military service in different ways. Some were facing the draft while others resisted after enlisting in the military. Universal amnesty was never granted to war resisters