Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

Fall 10-1971

Description

Quakers sit in protest of the Vietnam War outside of the north portico of the White House. Although the Quakers had a long history of promoting peace, it was not until Clarence Pickett of the American Society of Friends founded the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy in 1957 that they became organized anti-war activists.

War protest, common throughout the United States involvement in Vietnam, escalated in the early 1970s. This came after news about the My Lai massacre, the Kent State University killings, and the release of the first installment of the Pentagon Papers, which revealed disturbing details about the war.

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http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/antiwar.html

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

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Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

Quakers; Society of Friends; peace movements; anti-war protests; war; Vietnam War;

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