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Bob Hoover
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Pete Burns
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Richard Nicoll
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Tom Hayden
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Detailed explanation-1: -Soon Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) became prominent opponents of the Vietnam War, and Bevel became the director of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-2: -Anti-War March on Washington. Image Source: The King Center. April 17, 1965 was the largest anti-war protest to have been held in Washington, D.C. up to that time. The number of marchers (15, 000–25, 000) was close to the number of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam at the time (less than 25, 000).
Detailed explanation-3: -Many prominent intellectuals of the time, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau (see Civil Disobedience) and William Ellery Channing contributed literary works against war. Other names associated with the movement include William Ladd, Noah Worcester, Thomas Cogswell Upham, and Asa Mahan.