youth protest in vietnam war
In 1961 president Kennedy decided to send American troops to Vietnam to stop the spread of Communism and to show the United States' strength of resolve. At the time he did not know the turmoil he would bring to his own country. The United States was split between those who believed it was our part to get involved in Vietnam and those who thought it was none of our business. As the war continued people's opinions intensified, especially student's. Youth protests during the 1960's changed the way many Americans viewed the Vietnam War. In the early 1960's protests first became a way of change for the civil rights movement. Then as men started going off to war it became a way of displaying activism. Liberal cities with big universities were the first to experience the antiwar movement. The cities of Ann Arbor, Bloomington, Chicago, East Lansing, Lawrence, Madison, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis saw the movement in full effect (Anderson 4-5). Some people believed that the protesters were a disgrace for betraying their own country (Dudley 83). "Teach-ins" became a way of educating students about what was really happening in Vietnam. Speeches, songs, discussions,
Beneath The Diamond Sky Haight-Ashbury 1965- 1970. A riot broke out in Chicago at the National Democratic Convention. Hillside, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1994. 5 thousand United States troops attacked the demonstrators (Hoskyns 189). In the late 1960's and early 1970's more people were changing their opinions from prowar to antiwar, especially older Americans. The first sustained national strike took place in American history, when 450 colleges and universities were closed. Many youth joined organizations that were against the war. In Washington, 75,000 protesters came to rally against the government at the Pentagon (Dougan and Weiss 89-90). At a bar, a construction worker spontaneously burst out in rage against the war, while watching a young boys funeral on television (Dougan and Weiss 102). They became opinionated about the Vietnam War from "teach ins" and other discussions or lectures. The long length of the Vietnam war and the increased casualties began to play heavily on the minds of the American public. I regret nothing (Anderson 1)!" That quote came from Abbie Hoffman's last speech in 1989. get the students involved at the "teach-ins". The people represented every area of America with young and old, men and women, and people of every race (Kent 76). Bibliography Works CitedAnderson, Terry.
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