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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

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

National Peace Action Coalition Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Peace Action Coalition
Dates: 1970-1973

Negotiation Now! Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-196
Overview

Negotiation Now! was a national citizens' campaign for new initiatives to end the war in Vietnam by means of massive petitioning The group was later known as the National Committee for a Political Settlement in Vietnam. Its members called upon the United States government to unconditionally end the bombing of North Vietnam. It supported (then) U.N. Secretary General U Thant's call for negotiations among all parties to the conflict, leading to a political settlement of the war.

Dates: 1968-1972

New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-New Mobilization Committee-End the War in Vietnam
Dates: 1969-1970

New York Workshop in Nonviolence Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-New York Workshop in Nonviolence
Dates: 1965-1969

Arthur S. Obermayer Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Obermayer, Arthur S.
Abstract

Includes records of the Newton Coalition for New Politics and memorabilia from the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Dates: 1968-1972

Philadelphia Resistance Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Resistance
Dates: 1965-1974

Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rankin, Jeannette
Overview

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), was the first woman to serve in Congress (1917-1919). She was an active suffragist and later worked in peace organizations such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Council for Prevention of War. Rankin founded the Georgia Peace Society in the 1940s, and led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, an all-women's protest march against the Vietnam war shortly before her death.

Dates: 1917-2011

Resist Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Resist
Dates: 1968-

Benjamin Spock Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Spock, Benjamin
Abstract

Collection consists of photocopied material released under the Freedom of Information Act for the years 1964-1972, with the bulk of the material from 1968. Includes informants' reports, transcripts of personal conversations, writings by and about Spock, and transcripts of Spock's media appearances.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1964-1972