4.15.2017

Saturday, April 15, 1967: Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam


Tens of thousands of people march in anti-war rallies in New York and San Francisco. The rallies themselves were evidence of Americans' ever-increasing disenchantment with the Vietnam War, while an instance of flag burning in New York's Central Park (pictured above) was a pivotal event in leading to a 1968 flag desecration law. 
     -- Photo by New York Daily News

Vietnam protests
* Summary (www.vietnamwar.net): @
* Summary ("The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War," edited by Spencer C. Tucker, 2011): @
* San Francisco summary, photos (Harvey Richards Media Archive): @
* Pamphlet (NYU Archives Collection): @
* Various documents (The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change): @

Flag burning
* "Flag-burning overview" (First Amendment Center): @
* "State flag-protection laws" (First Amendment Center): @
* "Timeline of Flag Desecration Issues" (www.ushistory.org): @
* "The Flag Bulletin; Two Centuries of Burning Flags, A Few Years of Blowing Smoke" (New York Times, 1995): @
* Text of flag desecration law (July 5, 1968): @
* "Congress Passes Flag Protection Act" (Today in Civil Liberties History): @
* "Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest" (Michael Welch, 2000): @
* "Flag Burning and Free Speech: The case of Texas v. Johnson" (Robert Justin Goldstein, 2000): @
* "Flag Protection: A Brief History of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment" (Congressional Research Service, 2001): @
* "Inside the Supreme Court's flag burning decision" (National Constitution Center): @ 

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