![]() The University of Washington has a rich history of antiwar, civil rights, and radical activism. While college students were not the only ones to protest, student activism played a key role in bringing antiwar ideas to the broader public. Here is a detailed account of the weeklong protest by Zoe Altaras Vietnam War: Student ActivismĬampus unrest is one of the most-remembered aspects of the Vietnam War era. Police and student demonstrators facing off in an antiwar march down the I-5 freeway during the May 1970 student strike to protest the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State killings. ![]() Click the image to be taken to a digital gallery of issues from October 1967 to April 1968.Ī copy of Counterpoint, the paper published by the GI-Civilian Alliance for Peace, one of the first student/GI antiwar colalborations in the country. Click to read more.Ī copy of UW's SDS News from October 23, 1967. Organizing the 1968 UW boycott of non-union grapes, led by the United Farm Workers, galvanized the new Chicana/o movement on campus. In 1971, Asian American students at Seattle Central Community College formed the Oriental Student Union, inspired by the Black Students' Unions, and kick-started an Asian American student movement in Seattle. The Oriental Student Union Sit-in at Seattle Central
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