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International Days of Protest

October 15, 1965 - October 16, 1965

SDS International Days of Protest Oct 15-16 1965 Anti-War pin
SDS International Days of Protest Oct 15-16 1965 Anti-War pin
SDS International Days of Protest Oct 15-16 1965 Anti-War pin

The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, founded in August 1965 in Washington, D.C., organizes the “International Days of Protest,” along with the Berkeley Vietnam Day Committee and other groups. Protests of various sizes against U.S. involvement in Vietnam take place in dozens of American and several European cities. Perhaps as many as 100,000 people participate in total.1

1Ronald B. Frankum Jr., Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2011), 306; Melvin Small, Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America’s Hearts and Minds (Lanham, MD: Rowmand and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2002), 32–33; Penny Lewis, Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory (Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press, 2013), 71,80.