Vietnam War Protest

in the United States

Brianna Michelle Mitchell

Vietnam War
1954-1975
North Vietnam and the Viet Cong versus the South
Vietnamese Government and the United States.
War Against the Americans to Save the Nation.
3 million people killed
58,000 Americans
More than 1.5 million Vietnamese civilians

US withdrawal in 1973

Causes of the
Anti-War
Movement

Opposition to the draft.

Moral, practical, and

legal arguments against
U.S. intervention

Reaction to media
portrayal of the war

Students

Burning draft cards

Protesting universities
who furnished grades
to draft boards

Protesting military

Protesting Dow
Chemical job fairs on
campus

Soldiers

503,926
incidents
of
desertion between 1966
and 1971.

Officers being fragged.

Units refusing to go into
battle.
Underground newspapers
being
published
by
soldiers.

Antiwar GI organizations

WOMEN
Another Mother for Peace
Womens International League for

Peace
Women Strike for Peace

African
Americans

Southern Christian
Leadership Conference

Black Panther

National Black Anti-War

Anti-Draft Union

Cassius Clay

ART

Writers
Poets
Visual Artist
Film Makers
Playwrights

HAIR
The Musical

Rock Musical
Written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni
Composed by Galt MacDermot
Hair is a musical that focuses on the lives
of Claude Bukowski, an nave Oklahoman
who sets off to New York after being
drafted in to the Army, and tribe leader
George Berger. Claude is introduced to the
issues of the 1960s and begins an internal
conflict which world he belongs. Claude
begins his