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  1. The β€œMe” Generation: How Shirley Chisholm, Harvey Milk and the Weathermen Fought Against the 1970's Fantasy of Perfection

    Date(s): 1970 Location: District of Columbia, District of Columb, San Francisco, California Tag(s): Homosexuality, African-Americans, Politics, Anti War, Vietnam War, Terrorism 

    The 1970's became fertile ground for public outrage and violence against the American establishment due to national economic stress, assassinations of public figures, the Vietnam War, and other political scandals. By the 70's it seemed to a significant amount of Americans, that what the government wanted to portray and what they were realistically taking care of were two very different truths. What...

  2. Muhammad Ali: How One Man's Dissent Illustrates the Story of the American Opposition of the Vietnam War

    Date(s): 1967 Location: Dist Columbia, District of Columbia Tag(s): Cold War, Draft, Vietnam War, Anti Draft, Anti War 

    During the Cold War, the Vietnam War was probably considered one of America's more unnecessary and counterproductive ideas to stop the spreading of Communism. As the American government continued the war with little thought to whom it effected on both sides of the spectrum many people both Black and White, poor and rich and overall different came together as one to protest the continuation of a war...