The Cause and Effect of Student Protests During the Vietnam War As each year of the war passed, the casualty list got longer and longer and victory seemed further away. Americans, students in particular, could no longer bear the effects the war had on their daily lives. A large aspect of war that propelled the students to resist was the draft. The draft was a system meant to choose people randomly for service, but in reality it chose working class men and African Americans disproportionately high. By 1966, thirty-thousand men were being drafted each month and people began to resist. One particular event which protested the draft was Strop the Draft Week, a weeklong protest against the draft in which students burned their draft cards. Another
