DISSENT, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, AND THE VIETNAM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

Willie Hiatt via ZOOM

Protest and dissent have greeted every American war, but nothing compared to the broad coalition that opposed the United States’ bombing of North Vietnam in the 1960s. For the first time in history, college students took the national stage en masse. Scholars have argued that the diversity of the movement was at once its strength and weakness. Nearly everyone was welcomed under the anti-war banner (students, intellectuals, pacifists, draft resisters, liberals, socialists, cultural radicals, hippies, workers), but the media and critics tended to focus on the most violent, bizarre, or extreme elements. This lecture explores the tumultuous context in which the most sustained popular protest in American history helped turn sentiment against the war.

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