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PROTESTS, ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT AND CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCEBy Jeff Murphy
Protests
Kent State – May 4, 1970
Protest Slogans
"Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?"
"One, two, three, four! We don't want your f*****g war!"
"Hell no, we won't go", "Make love, not war", "America, love it or leave it“ "America, change it or lose it“ "Eighteen today, dead tomorrow"
Famous Protesters
Abby Hoffman • Founded Youth
International Party or “Yippies”
• Forced underground by US government
Jane Fonda• Became known as “Hanoi
Jane” for visiting North Vietnam during war
Joan Baez• Wrote and sang many
popular protest songs
Timothy Leary• Writer
Allen Ginsberg• Poet/ writer
John Lennon• Former Beatle
Student Organizations and Civil Disobedience
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) Student Liberation Movement (SLM)
- Civil Disobedience - the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence. It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience
- Colleges such as Kent State, Cal-Berkley, Louisiana State and Michigan became hotbeds of civil disobedience and protest movements.