Articles Related to Vietnam War antiwar movement
Author Query: Remembering Martin Luther King & the Vietnam War
November 29, 2021
Mike Selby, a Canadian librarian, newspaper columnist, and the author of Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South, is working on a book about Martin Luther King Jr. and…
Last Train Runnin by Ronnie D. Foster
October 6, 2015
Ronnie Foster sums up his opinion of the Vietnam War with words he attributes to his protagonist in his novel, Last Train Runnin (R.D. Foster, 415 pp.; $21.25, paper): Oh the rich kids went to…
Artistic Query: ‘The Draft’ Looking for Backers
July 8, 2015
The creators of a new play, "The Draft", which is based on interviews from the 2011 book, Called to Serve: Stories of the Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft by Tom Weiner,…
Kill for Peace by Matthew Israel
December 16, 2014
Matthew Israel's Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War (University of Texas Press, 278 pp., $29.95, paper) fills the space that was left by Lucy Lippard’s A Different War: Vietnam in Art and…
'Hey, Hey, LBJ" Theater Piece at the D.C. Fringe Festival
July 16, 2014
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="549" caption="Kleinberg in Vietnam in 1968"] [/caption] David Kleinberg, who served with the Army's the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi in Vietnam from 1966 -67 as a combat correspondent has written…
Selma to Saigon by Daniel S. Lucks
June 11, 2014
On August 12, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., startled the Johnson Administration---and the nation---when he spoke out for the first time in favor of ending the American war in Vietnam. "Few events in my lifetime…
Against the War by Roland Menge
March 19, 2014
Roland Menge informs us that Against the War (Amazon Digital Services, $9.99, Kindle) is a historical novel. It examines the response of the Vietnam War generation to the Vietnam War. The novel closely follows the lives…
The Catonsville Nine by Shawn Francis Peters
December 13, 2012
Individuals with deeply held religious beliefs are often willing to carry out what they perceive to be righteous acts knowing full well that that those acts are against the law or the norms of society.…