Other Student Actions
Students demonstrated creativity in the media produced to express their positions and events organized to disrupt the status quo. Teach-ins, conferences, draft resistance, and opposing ROTC are not an exhaustive representation of strategies deployed by anti-war activists. Here, we feature a sampling of other methods: graphic imagery of napalm's harms, a political cartoon rejecting Democratic Party business as usual, seizing a building to found a free university, student strikes, and a phone call campaign to "scrape the nerves" of the powerful. From the horrific to the humorous, from the idealistic to the impish, no one affect can summarize what activists created to sustain public attention and leverage political will to end the war.
Content Warning
The item titled “Dow Doesn’t Care About People” contains an image of a child suffering from injuries caused by napalm. The image is in black and white and is not a high resolution image. The authors encourage users to exercise caution when viewing this item.
