... American public opinion against the war. With photographs of hundreds of American troops lying dead from the strike, along with even other pictures showing cruelty of American soldiers toward the native (what looked like to the average untrained eye) civilians, the public was incensed. Protest at home erupted and now not only students but adults to begin protesting against the war ... reasons U.S. involvement in Vietnam was wrong. From the countless lives lost to the public protesting all this evidence of a mistake will still never be enough to consul those who lost a son, husband, or e...

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... social change career. He was a truck loader working for a warehouse and a veteran on the G.I. Bill and Columbia University. As a teenager, read books like The Grapes Of Wrath, The Jungle, and Native Son that left him seeing race and class oppression as intertwined. He was conscious of racism in employment, but he lived in an ethnically diverse neighborhood. He sympathized with communists because ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School