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Anti-War Movement
The anti-war movement was one of the defining
social themes of the Sixties. Millions of young
Americans took to the streets to protest the
Vietnam War, which they felt was an illegal
exercise violating the war powers granted to
the Executive office. For a time, the protest
movement would unify the disparate elements
of American society, as rednecks and longhairs,
women and men, and blacks and whites united
to stop the war.