War Protests:
* The anti-war movement began mostly on college campuses, as members of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began organizing “teach-ins” to express their opposition to the way in which it was being conducted.
* On October 21, 1967, one of the most prominent anti-war demonstrations took place, as some 100,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial; around 30,000 of them continued in a march on the Pentagon later that night.
* In 1967, the anti-war movement got a big boost when the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. went public with his opposition to the war.
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests
(Yatzari G.)
Protesting the war began in small college campuses and small groups of peace activists and soon began to gain ground in 1965 after the United States bombed North Vietnam. Many leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. gave a boost to the movement and many of the followers began to question the government and the president. In addition, many of the followers began to worry about the deaths and casualties of the war, which already amounted to 15,058, and began to demand their return.
Also many monks in America disagreed with the war and to get their point across, they would gather a crowd and set themselves on fire. They literally burned themselves alive to try to stop the war.
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests
(Landon P.)
One cry of the protesters particularly hurt President Johnson:
“Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?”
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/protests_vietnam_war.htm
(Rose S.)
* The anti-war movement began mostly on college campuses, as members of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began organizing “teach-ins” to express their opposition to the way in which it was being conducted.
* On October 21, 1967, one of the most prominent anti-war demonstrations took place, as some 100,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial; around 30,000 of them continued in a march on the Pentagon later that night.
* In 1967, the anti-war movement got a big boost when the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. went public with his opposition to the war.
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests
(Yatzari G.)
Protesting the war began in small college campuses and small groups of peace activists and soon began to gain ground in 1965 after the United States bombed North Vietnam. Many leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. gave a boost to the movement and many of the followers began to question the government and the president. In addition, many of the followers began to worry about the deaths and casualties of the war, which already amounted to 15,058, and began to demand their return.
Also many monks in America disagreed with the war and to get their point across, they would gather a crowd and set themselves on fire. They literally burned themselves alive to try to stop the war.
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests
(Landon P.)
One cry of the protesters particularly hurt President Johnson:
“Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?”
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/protests_vietnam_war.htm
(Rose S.)