See full scan at the bottom of the page. The March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam, held on April 17th,…

After the German occupation of Brussels, Belgium in 1940, it became clear that Mayor Joseph Vandemeulebroek’s patriotic stance would not be tolerated for long by…

The 1968 Chicago riots were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people flooding out onto the…

The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. They have been…

See full scan at the bottom of the page. On first pass, this circular looks the part of an official military message. Look…

In the spring of 1964, a youth conference at Yale University led to the creation of the May Second Movement. The Movement coordinated…

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942,…

The Resistance was an anti-war organization founded by David Harris, the former student body president of Stanford University. The organization began coordinating in…

Freedom Village, also known as Tent City, was an encampment for African Americans outside of Memphis, Tennessee during the Civil Rights Movement. The encampment…

See full scan at the bottom of the page. During the Vietnam War, the “Hey, hey, LBJ” chant was a popular protest slogan…

The Selective Service Act of 1948, also known as the Elston Act, was a major revision of the Articles of War of the United States enacted June…

Baseball teams desegregated in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The interest in integration in the 1940s was sparked by several factors, including…