In the 1960s, a wave of protests against American involvement in Vietnam swept through the United States.
With the presence of U.S. troops in Vietnam increasing during 1963, student protests quickly sprung up across college campuses. The movement escalated, and an entire generation took to the streets to support peace in the face of seemingly endless war.
Flower power clashed with cops, massive demonstrations overtook the Capitol & other major cities, and even the Statue of Liberty was seized by Vietnam vets in defiance of the government they fought for.
Go inside the protests and experience what it was like to be one of the citizens in the sixties marching for peace.
1
Vietnam protest, Washington D.C.
April 17, 1965
2
Ad for an antiwar protest
April 17, 1965
3
Support Demonstration for draft resister Mike Leavy, at Seattle's Federal Building
September 13, 1968
4
Antiwar demonstrators in Washington
October, 1967
5
University of Wisconsin students stage a protest against the war in Vietnam
October 17, 1967
6
Antiwar March outside Crisler Arena on the University of Michigan Campus
September 20, 1969
7
Vietnam Veterans Against War seized the Statue of Liberty in protest of the war
June, 1971
8
Coming out after VVAW's takeover of the Statue of Liberty
1971
9
Asian American students at Seattle Central Community College formed the Oriental Student Union
1971
10
Police and student demonstrators facing off in an antiwar march down the I-5 freeway during the student strike to protest the invasion of Cambodia
May, 1970
11
Students for a Democratic Society protesting ROTC at University of Washington
March 6, 1969
12
Vietnam War protest, Washington D.C.
1969
13
Anti-Vietnam war march
Washington, D.C 1967
14
Anti-Vietnam Peace March around the Pentagon
1967
15
Anti-Vietnam Peace March around the Pentagon
1967
16
American National Guards defending the Pentagon building during the anti-Vietnam Peace
March 1967
17
An American young girl, Jan Rose Kasmir, confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the anti-Vietnam march
1967
18
Anti-Vietnam War protesters Wichita, Kansas
1967
19
A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration Arlington, Virginia
1967
20
Young protesters at the march on the Pentagon
1967
21
Large crowd at a National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam direct action demonstration, Washington, D.C
1967
22
Vietnam War protest at the University of Wisconsin
1963
