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The Anti-Vietnam War Movement In 39 Photos

Posted on July 15, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Prominent civil rights leaders and activists would come out against the war as the decade wore on. In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. told the Harlem Riverside Church congregation. “In 2003, Senator John Kerry offered the following thoughts on the … Continue reading →

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The Art and Activism of Grace Paley

Posted on June 29, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Paley’s fiction is peopled with the politically minded but it never preaches. “There’s a case to be made that Grace Paley was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed, in her spare time, to become one … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Vietnam War Machine

Posted on June 18, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

NARMIC’s top 100 defense contractors list, which continued after the war. Here is a 1977 edition. “Diana Roose was a longtime staffer with National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex, or NARMIC, as it was commonly known. NARMIC was a group … Continue reading →

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A Most Violent Year

Posted on May 22, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It was neither the best nor the worst of times. But in contrast to the relative placidity of the 1950s, the events of 1968 opened up previously unimaginable vistas to people all across the globe. ‘We knew about the Paris … Continue reading →

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The Priest Who Practiced Radical Direct Action: Father Daniel J. Berrigan By Bernardine Dohrn

Posted on May 8, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1970, we received a ‘Letter from the Underground’ from Father Daniel Berrigan, printed in the New York Review of Books. It was a note from a comrade, for Dan too was a ‘most wanted’ fugitive from the FBI and … Continue reading →

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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1967)

Posted on May 1, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several … Continue reading →

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David Harris

Posted on April 1, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“David Victor Harris (born February 28, 1946 in Fresno, California) is an American journalist and author. He is known chiefly for his role as an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War era, most notably as a leading opponent of the … Continue reading →

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I Served in Vietnam. Here’s My Soundtrack.

Posted on March 26, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Former WRVA News Anchor Paul Bottoms worked with Armed Forces Radio in Saigon. “‘Vietnam.’ The word comes camouflaged in music. Rock ’n’ roll, soul, pop and country. For those who watched the war unfold on the evening news, the music … Continue reading →

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Summer’68 – John Douglas (1968)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Draft resistance organizing in Boston, a Boston organizer’s trip to North Vietnam — a GI. coffeehouse in Texas, Newsreel’s take over of Channel 13 in New York — following the production of the Rat’s special issue on Chicago — and … Continue reading →

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I Ain’t Marching Anymore – Phil Ochs (1965)

Posted on March 7, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I Ain’t Marching Anymore is Phil Ochs‘ second LP, released on Elektra Records in 1965. Dispensing with second guitarist Danny Kalb, Ochs performs alone on twelve original songs, an interpretation of Alfred Noyes‘ ‘The Highwayman‘ set to music (much as … Continue reading →

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Clay v. United States

Posted on March 2, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Muhammad Ali arriving at a Veterans Administration office in Louisville, Ky., in March 1966 to appeal his draft classification. “Clay v. United States, 403 U.S. 698 (1971), was Muhammad Ali‘s appeal of his conviction in 1967 for refusing to report … Continue reading →

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Miss America protest

Posted on February 25, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 (September 7, 1968), sometimes known as No More Miss America! The protest was attended by about 400 feminists and separately, by civil rights advocates. The feminist protest, … Continue reading →

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American Deserters Committee

Posted on January 19, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Draft-age Americans being counseled by Mark Satin (far left) at the Anti-Draft Programme office on Spadina Avenue in Toronto, August 1967. The front room was so crowded at the time that the counseling session here is taking place in one … Continue reading →

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Soldiers in la Guerra

Posted on January 17, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Gilberto C. Villarreal, the author’s father, in Vietnam. “The Edgewood Independent School District, located in a predominantly lower-income Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American west side neighborhood of San Antonio, suffered 54 casualties during the Vietnam War, one of the highest rates … Continue reading →

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Radio Atlantic: How Has America Changed Since 1968?

Posted on January 6, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“As 2018 begins, tensions and tumult in America are high. But before the end of 1968, Conor Friedersdorf reminded us in The Atlantic, ‘Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated; U.S. troops would suffer their deadliest … Continue reading →

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Ramparts

Posted on December 28, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Ramparts was a glossy illustrated American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 to 1975 and closely associated with the New Left political movement. Unlike most of the radical magazines of the day, Ramparts was expensively produced and graphically sophisticated. … Continue reading →

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Handbook for Conscientious Objectors

Posted on December 8, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I read earlier editions bought from the publisher, with other authors. It explains who qualifies as a conscientious objector under the U.S. military draft and how the procedures work. The book did not push one type of belief over another, … Continue reading →

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Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll, June 1969

Posted on November 29, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In June 1969, LIFE magazine published a feature that remains as moving and, in some quarters, as controversial as it was when it intensified a nation’s soul-searching 45 years ago. On the cover, a young man’s face—the very model of … Continue reading →

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The Moral Case for Draft Resistance

Posted on November 14, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A clergyman joining those burning draft cards at Arlington Street Church in Boston, October 1967. “On Monday, Oct. 16, 1967, Americans gathered by the thousands in cities and on campuses all over the country for the first ‘Stop the Draft’ … Continue reading →

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Draft lottery (1969)

Posted on November 11, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. These lotteries occurred during a … Continue reading →

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‘Hell, No, We Won’t Go!’: Protesting the Vietnam Draft in 1968

Posted on November 2, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A big interstate bus noses into the checkpoint on the Canadian border near Rouses Point, New York Canadian customs officials come aboard, accompanied by two FBI men. The agents have fugitive warrants in their pockets, and they are looking for … Continue reading →

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The March on the Pentagon: An Oral History

Posted on October 22, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators run up against military police as they attempt to penetrate security lines at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 21, 1967. “The Vietnam War is the only American conflict remembered as much for the opposition it … Continue reading →

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Baby boomers

Posted on October 14, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Baby boomers are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use starting birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1940s and ending birth years ranging … Continue reading →

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How the Draft Reshaped America

Posted on October 10, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Women burning the draft cards of their husbands and sons during an anti-war protest in 1968. “‘Greeting: You are hereby ordered for induction in the Armed Forces of the United States.’ In 1967, more than 300,000 American men opened envelopes … Continue reading →

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What I Saw on the Way to the Revolution

Posted on September 16, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

People gathered for a concert in Tompkins Square Park in 1967. “In June 1967, in the freewheeling spirit of the times, I dropped out of Antioch College, in Ohio, and hitchhiked to New York. I was 19, mildly though not … Continue reading →

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The Camden 28

Posted on September 1, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Camden 28 were a group of ‘Catholic left’ anti-Vietnam War activists who in 1971 planned and executed a raid on a Camden, New Jersey draft board. The raid resulted in a high-profile criminal trial of the activists that was … Continue reading →

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United States v. O’Brien (1968)

Posted on August 16, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“United States v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that a criminal prohibition against burning a draft card did not violate the First Amendment‘s guarantee of free speech. … Continue reading →

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Draft evasion

Posted on July 21, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Draft evasion is an intentional decision not to comply with the military conscription policies of one’s nation. Such practices that do not involve law breaking or which are based on conscientious objection are sometimes referred to as ‘draft avoidance.’ Refusing … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Protest, 1965-1975 by Tom Hayden

Posted on July 14, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The era of protest against Vietnam – 1965-75 – was unique as the emergence of a nationwide peace movement on a scale not seen before in American history. There were previous war resisters, for example, the Society of Friends, the … Continue reading →

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1001 Ways to Beat the Draft – Robert Bashlow and Tuli Kupferberg (1966)

Posted on July 6, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“1001 Ways to Beat the Draft is a satirical Vietnam War protest pamphlet written in 1966 by Robert Bashlow and Tuli Kupferberg. It was also published in book format. The text reels through dozens of ways that young men facing … Continue reading →

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I Picked Prison Over Fighting in Vietnam

Posted on June 27, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Demonstrators trying to return their draft cards in New York City on Oct. 16, 1967. “Growing up in Fresno, Calif., I believed in ‘my country, right or wrong,’ just like everyone I knew. I could not have anticipated that when … Continue reading →

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Catonsville Nine

Posted on June 23, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Catonsville Nine were nine Catholic activists who burned draft files to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, they went to the draft board in Catonsville, in the U.S. state of Maryland, took 378 draft files, brought them … Continue reading →

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