Your Viewpoint

Your belief is that the mural might be a "celebration" of war and violence and has no place in Kenosha. If there is to be any memorial, it should be to those who opposed the killing and help end the fighting.
 

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Questions to address

1. Why did some people protest against the Vietnam War?
2. What sorts of people protested against the war?
3. What were some of the ways they protested?
4. Why did the protesters believe the war was wrong?
5. What effect (if any) did the protests have?

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Internet Resources

• Timeline: Vietnam (1960-1973)

Presents a basic, easy-to-read timeline covering the major political and anti-war events during the time of the Vietnam War.
• Great Events: Anti-Vietnam War Demonstrations 1969

Background on the anti-war movement.
• The American Experience/Chicago 1968/Anti-War Movement

A history of the protest movement, anti-draft movement, and events of 1968.
• GIs United Against the War in Vietnam

From a collection of primary source materials, this is the original Statement of Aims from GIs United Against the War in Vietnam.
• The Sixties and More Sixties

Photographer Robert Altman (not the director) has two sites containing his photographs from the sixties anti-war and counter culture movement.
• Vietnam Links

Links collected by students relating to the Vietnam War: Very extensive, but also covers topics other than yours.