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Early Vietnam Anti-War Student Movement Seeks Supporters

Early Vietnam Anti-War Student Movement Seeks Supporters

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In the spring of 1964, a youth conference at Yale University led to the creation of the May Second Movement. The Movement coordinated demonstrations on May 2nd in New York, Madison, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and San Juan, Puerto Rico to protest U.S. intervention in Vietnam.

The early anti-war effort worked to create a “militant student peace movement”; this flyer sought to recruit students who could support or start new campus chapters.

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University of Virginia | The Sixties Project

Special thanks to the USC Digital Imaging Lab for their support in digitizing this item.

The May Second Movement Recruitment Flyer
LocationSan Francisco, CaliforniaYear1964SourceAcquisitionRights and RestrictionsImage Rights: Museum of ProtestShare

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