Anti-War+Movement


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-Many Americans felt the war was unjustifiable because it did not benefit the United States directly; furthermore there was much controversy over if the Southern Vietnamese shared the same morals and were a good ally for the US. -Many protested against a draft, because they felt it was against their rights. -African Americans, did not want to fight for the Vietnamese freedom when they did not have freedom at the home front. -Pacifists were against violence and war.

-Methods of protest varied. Some people protested through riots where they inflicted damage and raised havoc in order to voice their beliefs.

-Yippies -Hippies -College -SPU -SDS VVAW

-A lot of merchandise, burning of draft cards, posters.... -"Student Peace Union (SPU), emerged in 1959 on college campuses across the country. Like SANE, the SPU was more liberal than radical. After the Joseph McCarthy­inspired dissolution of Communist and Socialist organizations on campuses in the 1950s, the SPU became the only option remaining for nascent activists. The goal of the SPU went beyond that of SANE. Unwilling to settle for fewer nuclear weapons, the students desired a wholesale restructuring of American society. The SPU, never an effective interest group, faded away in 1964, its banner taken up by a more active assemblage, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)."

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