Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the anti-Vietnam War Movement

Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the anti-Vietnam War Movement

This collection holds documents of two influential anti-war organizations in the 1960s, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Vietnam Veterans Against War (VVAW).The SDS emphasized a politics of participatory democracy , community building and creating a political movement of impoverished people and later became involved in the anti-war movement  during the course of the Vietnam War. VVAW organized major national protests, including Operation Dewey Canyon III (1971), which lead the organization to assume a position of leadership within the antiwar movement. In addition to the SDS and VVAW collections, this module contains documents of 10 other anti-Vietnam War organizations.

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