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More Vietnam Protest buttons 1st 3 are celluloid the 4th is a lithograph.
1st - Moratorium May 5 OUT NOW Kent Augusta Jackson S.E. Asia SMC
2.5 diameter, From 1971
Kent = May 4th 1970 Kent State where the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
Augusta = May 11, 1970 Augusta Georgia riots after a mentally handicapped black teenager was tortured and killed at the hands of prisoners.
In the riots that ensued, six black men were shot in the back and killed by police shotguns. 80 others were also injured. The police were carrying out orders by racist Governor Lester Maddox to "Shoot to kill Communists and Black Panthers".
Jackson = Jackson Mississippi. May 14, 1970, a group were confronted by city and state police. Shortly after midnight, the police opened fire, killing two students and injuring twelve. The event happened only 11 days after National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State
S.E. Asia = Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos
2nd - Hang up on WAR - Don't pay phone tax, 1.5 diameter
3rd - CD Civil Disobedience is Civil Defense 1.5 diameter
4th - FIFTH AVENUE AUG 6 MASS PROTEST by Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee 1.5 diameter from 1966
Part of the International Days of Protests from August 6, 1966 to August 9, 1966
