Vietnam War Protests: Draft dodgers openly defied the draft by burning draft cards and fleeing to Canada. Civil Rights Movement: Protesters broke unjust laws, such as segregated seating ...

The largest and most expensive anti-war effort of 1967, Vietnam Summer ... of resisters would be arrested for not carrying their draft cards. The hope was that the arrests would create national ...

But the students all acted from a common belief that the Vietnam War was wrong ... where students tried to organize a national burn-your-draft-card movement; and Harvard, where protesters ...

The fall of the South Vietnam capital of Saigon on April 30, 1975 — soon to be 50 years ago — effectively spelled the end of ...

The Vietnam War most directly affected those young men eligible for military service. Between 1965-72, about 154,000 men of draft age lived in Cuyahoga County. Local statistics for military service ...

Fox; and the overlap of the civil-rights movement with anti-war and anti-draft protests in "Da 5 Bloods" (2020), starring Chadwick Boseman. Allison also analyzes how the US and Vietnam have used ...

More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent wound on the American psyche. It is a war that divided families and communities, and sparked massive protests on college ...