Anti-Viet Nam War Collection, ca. late 1960s-early 1970s.

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Anti-Viet Nam War Collection, ca. late 1960s-early 1970s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741375118

The collection contains 63 flyers, handbills, newsletters, and other ephemera (including some duplicates), mainly of the Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan area. Groups represented include the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, Inc., Black Panther Party, White Panthers, War Resisters League, Michigan Anti-Imperalist Coalition, and the National Peace Action Coalition.

.1 linear feet (1 folder)

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8113353

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...

Online Archive of California

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War Resisters League

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The War Resisters League (WRL) was established in 1923 through the initiative of Jessie Wallace Hughan. It began as an organization for men and women willing to sign a pledge refusing to support war of any kind. During World War II, it lent both moral and legal support to conscientious objectors, especially absolute pacifists who refused to participate even in civilian alternative service, often for reasons other than religious beliefs. In 1968, the WRL merged with the Committee for Nonviolent A...

White panther party

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Vietnam veterans against the war

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The founders were former servicemen and servicewomen who served in Vietnam and who opposed the United States government's policy during the Vietnamese Conflict, sometimes in the face of public apathy, indifference and even hostility and harassment. They testified in the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation as to the extent of atrocities against Viet Cong prisoners, civilians, and illegal border incursions into noncombatant countries. From the description of Collection, 1967-[ongoing]. (...

Anti-Imperialist Coalition

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National Peace Action Coalition (U.S.)

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The National Peace Action Coalition was one of the largest anti-Vietnam War movement organizations of that era. With chapters in many U.S. cities, the Coalition planned and conducted a number of major anti-war demonstrations in Washington D.C., San Francisco, and other cities to protest the U.S. conduct of the war in Southeast Asia. Their demand was for immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Southeast Asia. From the description of Collection, 1970-1973. (Swarthmo...