Movement clearly understood that to eliminate war, American imperialism had to be eliminated. It was real solidarity with Vietnam.”

The campus protesters & Black liberation movement converged in Augusta, Georgia, where police recently had murdered Black teenager Charles Oatman.

(17/18)

On May 11, thousands of Black residents rose up. Police responded with shoot-to-kill orders, murdering Charlie Mack Murphy, age 39; William Wright, Jr, 18; Sammy McCullough, 20; John Stokes, 19; John Bennett, 28; and Mack Wilson, 45. At least another 60 were wounded.'

https://fightbacknews.org/articles/may-1970-two-weeks-when-anti-war-uprising-changed-history

(18/18)

In the streets of New York, huge groups of anti-war demonstrators brawled with mobs of bootlicking pro-war strikebreakers. The movement weakened the U.S. war effort itself. Thousands of drafted soldiers deserted.

(12/18)