By 1967, campuses across the country had developed a vocal left that inspired more and more students as the Vietnam War escalated and the civil rights movement turned toward ideas of black power. But the real transformation of the campus left came with the national emergence of the civil rights movement and their vibrant student organizations, which proved by example the effectiveness of social protest and paved the way for the antiwar movement. Students at the UW protested trials of allegedly “communist” professors in 1948 and organized small anti-nuclear pickets in the early 1960s. Throughout the 1950s, small anti-McCarthy and anti-nuclear protests were organized on enough campuses to revitalize the student left after the repressive years of the Cold War. Student Activism at UW, 1948-1970 by Jessie Kindig This is part of the Vietnam War Special Section. Explore this history by clicking on the images in the sidebar to link to hundreds of photographs and documents from student activism on campus, or scroll down to read an overview of student protest at UW during the Vietnam War era. The University of Washington has a rich history of antiwar, civil rights, and radical activism. While college students were not the only ones to protest, student activism played a key role in bringing antiwar ideas to the broader public. Here is a detailed account of the weeklong protest by Zoe Altaras Vietnam War: Student ActivismĬampus unrest is one of the most-remembered aspects of the Vietnam War era. Police and student demonstrators facing off in an antiwar march down the I-5 freeway during the May 1970 student strike to protest the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State killings. Click the image to be taken to a digital gallery of issues from October 1967 to April 1968.Ī copy of Counterpoint, the paper published by the GI-Civilian Alliance for Peace, one of the first student/GI antiwar colalborations in the country. Click to read more.Ī copy of UW's SDS News from October 23, 1967. Organizing the 1968 UW boycott of non-union grapes, led by the United Farm Workers, galvanized the new Chicana/o movement on campus. In 1971, Asian American students at Seattle Central Community College formed the Oriental Student Union, inspired by the Black Students' Unions, and kick-started an Asian American student movement in Seattle. The Oriental Student Union Sit-in at Seattle Central
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