Vietnam - The Long Sixties: Clash of Radicalisms

1970 NYC Hard Hat Workers vs. Students

In 1970, a group of "hard hats" or structural iron workers got into a battle with anti-war student protestors in lower Manhattan. New York has some ugly riots in its history. One of the strangest is the Hard Hat Riot, a clash between construction workers and war protesters

Radical Politics

1968 Rioting Police vs. Student Protestors

Irish-American Mayor Daley was quite a bigot, referring to Senator Abraham Ribicoff as a "Jew Sonovabitch." Senator Abraham Ribicoff was the Senator who at the Chicago Democratic Convention said Daley's police forces were using "Gestapo tactics." So here the conflict is between upper-middle class and lower-middle

Vietnam

Radicalization in 1960s Madison, Wisconsin: One Participant's Reflection

From Solidarity February 27, 2012 by Patrick M. Quinn The three most radicalized university campuses during the late 1960s were Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California at Berkeley. What follows is an account of the radicalization in Madison during the years 1962 to 1971 based

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What does it take to stop a War?

On November 13, 1966 Broooklyn College Students joined an antiwar demonstration in Foley Square in lower Manhattan, home of the Draft Board.

Vietnam

There's a War going on...

...and not just in Vietnam. Students at Brooklyn College took seriously the advice to "Bring the War Home!" On the day of

Vietnam

The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried tells us about the unease and lack of confidence in their mission the US soldiers had during the Vietnam War. Some soldiers even turned into monsters. What I found interesting was I was originally under the impression that Mary Anne Bell joined the Viet Cong, apparently