protest movements

Provides first-hand testimony as to the issues surrounding military service, and offers ten reasons why someone should consider not joining the military.

A look at what happened during the anti-war protest of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the subsequent trial brought against the protest organizers by the city. Includes animation, archival footage, and music from today's artists.

An illustrated biography of civil rights leader Wesley Wallace Law, who helped to end segregation in Savannah, Georgia during the 1960s.

Highlights the cross-class opposition to the Vietnam war in contrast with the popular memory of the the war only being opposed by college students and the elite.

Explores the deadly 1970 Kent State protest of the Vietnam War through an iconic black-and-white photograph. Describes the background of the event, the impact of the photograph, and the aftermath. Includes photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.

On May 17, 1968, a group of Catholic anti-war activists burst into a draft board in suburban Baltimore, stole hundreds of Selective Service records (which they called death certificates) and burned the documents in a fire fueled by homemade napalm. The Catonsville Nine became international news and were defended by radical attorney William Kuntsler in federal court. This book, written by a Catonsville native, offers the first comprehensive account of this key event in the protests against the Vietnam War.

As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society. Witness to the Revolution, Clara Bingham?s unique oral history of that tumultuous time, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home, as it fought a long, futile war abroad.

Explores the deadly 1970 Kent State protest of the Vietnam War through an iconic black-and-white photograph. Describes the background of the event, the impact of the photograph, and the aftermath. Includes photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.

Presents parallel accounts of what was happening on October 17-18, 1967 in Vietnam with the Black Lion battalion of the First Infantry Division, on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin where students were protesting against Dow Chemical, and in Washington D.C. where pressures were mounting to end the war.