Influential Protests

For this assignment, I made a map of all the well known or influential protests against the Vietnam War from 1963-1970. I am solely looking at protests here in the United States. Putting this map together was actually a little tricky. Google would only allow the imported information if each category was on its own spreadsheet. When looking at this map, I found it both interesting that the majority of the protests happened on the East Coast of the United States. The West Coast had some influential protests mainly in San Francisco, but nothing to the magnitude in cities like New York City and Washington DC. With so many locations on the map as well as any other locations around the world, it seems pretty clearly how much citizens disliked the Vietnam War.
Many of the locations on this map are typically crowds coming together and burning draft cards. The one infamous protest that is still known today, is that of Kent State. I signified this important and horrific event with the sole bright color on the map (that being yellow). I wanted to single this one protest out because it is different from the rest. Most of the other anti-war rallies on this map are peaceful, meaning no one was brutally harmed. The Kent …show more content…
With digital aid, the Vietnam War seems to have created a ferocious frenzy among the public. As it is known, the Vietnam War was the first conflict to actually have photographs and news footage from on the battlefield. Families at home had the capability to watch men die on their televisions, or see rather than read about the horrors soldiers faced. I’m not surprised that the public reacted with protests. For the first time, people could witness the war face to face, unlike through descriptions through conversations. Looking at the map I created, it is safe to say the public did not approve the witnessed violence