GI Rally October 26

GI Rally October 26

Anti-Vietnam War Movement

This button was made for the first GIs for Peace march and rally held in Chicago in 1968. Military veterans and civilians were invited to exchange views on the war in Vietnam. The event took place at the Midland Hotel from 4pm to midnight. A flyer from the same event lists: entertainment, refreshments, active duty GI speakers, open microphone for all servicemen, Vietnam veterans, rock bands, Pete Seeger, clergy, films, speakers from the antiwar movement, speakers from black liberation movement and free antiwar literature. The organizers of the event were Chicago GI Weeks Committee, which included a coalition of groups, like Veterans for Peace in Vietnam, Student Mobilization Committee, the Chicago Peace Council, National Mobilization Committee, High School Students Against the War, Chicago Area Draft Resistors and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Chicago Branch)

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Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1968

Button

en-US

Physical Object

ca. 1967