This section contains anti-war/draft documents from national organizations and southern civil rights organizations. See also:
Vietnam War, Imperialism, & Military Draft documents re local activites outside the South.
Articles by Freedom Movement Veterans Opposing the Vietnam War & Military Draft
Vietnam War and the Assembly of Unrepresented People introduction & background information.
Vietnam War & Civil Rights Movement for web links.
Opposition to the Vietnam War
Resistance to the Military Draft
| 1963 | Vietnam Student Peace Union (SPU) article. Unsigned. April 1964 (pages missing) |
| 1965 | Dear Friend (call for multi-organization discussions/workshops in DC), March 1965. Unsigned (possibly SNCC, SSOC, MFDP) |
| 1965 | An Outline History of Viet Nam. Unsigned Committe to End the War in Viet Nam (Madison WI). 3/30/65. 15 pages. |
| 1965 | National Student March Against the War, SDS, Washington DC, April 1965
National gathering of students in Washington DC., Nancy Cooper, SNCC. April 8 Statement on Student March on Washington (SDS-organized march opposing the Vietnam War), Bayard Rustin, Norman Thomas and others, April 16 Memorandum (challenging Rustin-Thomas statement), Gardner Cox, Anne Farnsworth, Martin Peretz, April 27 Against the Vietnam War, speech by Paul Potter, SDS at mass protest in Washington DC. April 17
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| 1965 | McComb MFDP Statement Against the Vietnam War, July 1965 |
| 1965 | MFDP and Viet Nam, Lawrence Guyot, MFDP. July 31 1965 |
| 1965 | Working draft of speech on Vietnam and U.S. imperialism, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated 1965 |
| 1965 | Dr. King's Statement on Vietnam, August 1965. |
| 1965 | Assembly or Unrepresented People, Washington DC, August 6-9
Letter to Lucy Montgomery re funds for Assembly of Unrepresented People (AUP), A.J. Muste, CNVA. 7/13/65. Anti-Vietnam War gathering. We Declare Peace, Call for an Assembly of Unrepresented People (AUP). Washington DC August 6-9, 1965. Bob Parris, Eric Weinberger, many others. (Early mimeod version) Call for an Assembly of Unrepresented People, Washington, DC, August 6-9. Bob Parris (Moses) SNCC, Eric Weinberger CORE. (Later printed version) What's Wrong With the War in Vietnam? Donna Allen & Al Uhrie, distributed by SSOC
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| 1965 | Report to contributors, A.J. Muste & J. Barton Harrison, CCCO. Fall '65 |
| 1965 | Draft speech about media failures to accurately report about the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated (apparently winter 1965) |
| 1965 | Letter to Alcia Kaplow re SNCC's position on Vietnam and the draft. Margaret, SNCC. 12/1/65. |
| 1966 | SNCC's First Public Statement on Vietnam, January 1966 |
| 1966 | Statement of Julian Bond on being denied his seat in the Georgia Legislature, January 10 1966. |
| 1966 | Georgia Legislature Refuses to Seat Freedom Worker, (Julian Bond) re Vietnam War opposition. Unsigned, SNCC. January 11, 1966 |
| 1966 | SNCC Does Not Speak for the Whole Movement, Roy Wilkins, NAACP. L.A. Times, January 17 1966 |
| 1966? | The Enemy is Racism: Why Am I in Vietnam? Unsigned, undated, organization unknown. |
| 65? 66? | A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority, re Vietnam War and military draft. Unsigned. Undated (possibly 1966 or 1967). |
| 65? 66? 67? | The Legal 'Posture' of Resistance to American Intervention in Vietnam Unsigned. Undated (possibly 1965, '66 or '67) |
| 66? 67? | The Real Demands, Unsigned, Afro-Americans Against the War in Vietnam (AAAWV). Undated (possibly 1966 or '67) |
| 66? 67? | This Country Has Gone Mad, Donna Allen, Al Uhrie. Undated (possibly 1966 or 1967) |
| 1966 | Report on Results of Voters for Peace Poll, Karen Sue Dayno, VFP Chicago, IL. April 1966 |
| 1966 | Proposed Vietnam War debate rules & procedures, L.T. Wylie Citizens Committee, April 15, 1966 |
| 1966 | Letter & information challenging legality of and facts about Vietnam War, by L.T. Wyly. 4/28/66 |
| 1966 | Dear Tom, letter from Laura Foner to Tom Canterbury re SNCC White Folks Project and anti-Vietnam War work. 7/21/66 |
| 1967 | Spring Mobilization Against the War in Vietnam. New York City, April
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King. Riverside Church speech, April 1967. Documents: Spring Mobilization Committee Against the Vietnam War (18 documents) Documents: Student Mobilization Committee. (7 documents) King-Powell-Malcolm on Vietnam, march flyer (NYC), Unsigned Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee. April 15 1967 Address to Anti-War Marchers, Martin Luther King, April 1967.
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| 1967 | Vietnam Summer
Vietnam Summer, draft call/proposal. Unsigned Vietnam Summer, Cambridge MA. 5/9/67 |
| 1967 | Vietnam, 20-page illustrated pamphlet by Julian Bond, SNCC. Drawings by T.G. Lewis |
| 1967 | Documents: National Mobilization Against the Vietnam War. 1967. (22 documents) |
| 1967 | Planning maps for Pentagon protest Bruce Hartford, National Mobilization. July-August 1967. |
| 1968 | You Cannot Have Wars Without Women, Betty Meredith, Frances Steadman, Jannette Rankin Brigade. January 8, 1968. |
| 65? 66? | Smash the Draft, April 26. Unsigned S.F. State Draft Resistance Union (SDS). Undated April 26, (possibly 1965 or 1966) |
| 65? 66? | SNCC: Rights Fight is Alternative to Draft, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated (possibly 1965 or 1966) |
| 65? 66? | A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority, re Vietnam War and military draft. Unsigned. Undated (possibly 1966 or 1967). |
| 65? 66? 67? | The Legal 'Posture' of Resistance to American Intervention in Vietnam Unsigned. Undated (possibly 1965, '66 or '67) |
| 1966 | Proposal for a national Black anti-draft program, unsigned SNCC. August 9 1966 |
| 1966 | SNCC: Report on Draft Program and SNCC: Report on Court Proceedings, August 1966. (Anti-Vietnam War draft resistance in Atlanta.) |
| 1966 | Have You Ever Been One Day Late? Shutz Defense Committee (Flyer protesting Simuel Schutz prison sentence in military-draft case.) |
| 1966? | Uncle Sam Wants YOU Nigger! SNCC. Undated (probably 1966) |
| 1966 | National Anti-Draft Program, Michael Simmons & Larry Fox, SNCC. November 28 1966 |
| 1966 | Dear Bros and Sisters (report on anti-draft tour), Michael Simmons & Larry Fox, SNCC. November 28 1966 |
| 1967 | Seven SNCC Workers Indicted, Unsigned SNCC. March 7 1967 |
| 1967 | Documents: Draft Resistance National Mobilization Committee, Draft Resistance Project. 1967. (7 documents) |
| 1967 | Let the Man Know Hell No We Won't Go, Washington DC rally flyer, Unsigned (probably Howard University student group). May 8 1967 |
| 1967 | Black Men and the Draft, Cleveland Sellers, SNCC. June 8 1967 |
| 1967? | Hey Brother Want to Die for Whitey in Vietnam? Unsigned Black Anti-Draft |
| 1967 | Resist the War & the Draft, Defend Pvt. Ron Lockman, protest at S.F. Presidio. Unsigned. November 12, 1967 |
| 1968? | For Us Women anti-war, anti-draft flyer. Gwen Patton, National Black Anti-War Anti-Draft Union. Undated (probably 1968) |
| Undated | Charlie Cobb's Draft Physical |
| Undated | Preston King vs Draft Board Racism |
| Undated | Roy Shields & the Draft Physical |
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