USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Protesting the Draft Demonstrations grew in 1966, spurred by a change in the Selective Service System’s draft policy that exposed students in the bottom of half of their classes to the possibility that their deferments would be revoked and they would be drafted.

Detailed explanation-2: -Overview. The student movement arose to demand free speech on college campuses, but as the US involvement in the Vietnam war expanded, the war became the main target of student-led protests.

Detailed explanation-3: -In almost every major city in the nation, an anti-draft protest took place. Draft cards were burned, Selective Service buildings were protested, and teach-ins and sit-ins were continual events.

Detailed explanation-4: -Peace movement leaders opposed the war on moral and economic grounds. The North Vietnamese, they argued, were fighting a patriotic war to rid themselves of foreign aggressors. Innocent Vietnamese peasants were being killed in the crossfire.