Vietnam Peace Parade Committee pinback button

Fifth Ave. Vietnam Peace Parade Committee March 26 Mass Protest 1966
1 1/2 diameter Green version, Lithograph.

This button was for a mass anti-war demonstration held outside the United Nations in New York City. Organized by the Fifth Ave Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, it featured some of the most prominent members of the anti-war and civil rights movement of the time. Nobel Prize winner Linus Paul gave the keynote address. Other speakers included: Fannie Lou Hamer (Civil Rights Activist) , Juan Mari Bras (Puerto Rican Rights Activists), Jerry Rubin (counter culture activists) David Dellinger (radical pacifist).
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