Vietnam Summer (Organization)

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-075

Overview The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam was a conference of groups opposed to the United States' involvement in Vietnam. This groups in1966 and its first major undertaking at that time was to organize a mass rally on April 15, 1967, both in New York City and in San Francisco. The Mobe's chief aim was to mobilize public opinion against the Vietnamese War and against such other injustices of society as black inequality. It sought to weld a coalition of existing peace...

Dates: 1966-1969

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Vietnam Summer Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-067

Overview Vietnam Summer was a nationwide project designed to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967. From headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in about 700 local projects. Vietnam...

Dates: 1967

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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Vietnam Summer (Organization)

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records

Vietnam Summer Records

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