vietnam war

c. 1972

Poster is printed on yellow paper and has an image of a young woman wearing a red shirt and black pants. She is holding a gun on her back and plants in arms. In front of her is a pig eating out...

1967

Poster has a blue border with a yellow background. In the center are three large red flowers with blue text on each petal. Around the flowers are blue fern leaves and small red and blue flowers....

1970

Poster is a long rectangle with a center image of a squirrel wearing a soldier hat firing a machine gun at another squirrel that is being torn apart by the bullets. They are standing in a desert...

c. 1970

Small blue and white poster that has an image of a blue house with a chimney on the right of the roof. In the house outline is "A Home for Peace" printed in white block lettering.

1969

Small blue and white poster that has an image of a blue house with a chimney on the right of the roof. In the house outline is "A Home for Peace" printed in white block lettering.

1967

Poster has a photograph in brown of protestors and police in riot gear holding signs. On the left of the poster is a large black border with seven brown photographs of men. Printed over the large...

1968

Poster has a large brown photograph of protestors holding signs and police in riot gear. On the left are seven photographs of men framed in small squares. Printed over the large image in black is...

1967

Yellow poster paper with red and blue images in the middle. The center background is a collage of red images of Vietnamese people after they were bombed with napalm. Some images have U.S....

1965

Poster has an orange image on the upper right of three Vietnamese people. One is a man with a large brimmed hat, a woman with a head scarf and a young girl with long hair. Printed in black next...

c. 1967

Poster has a black and white photograph of a man standing in front of an opening. The man is standing in the lighted area from the opening with his face in shadow. Seen through the door opening is...

04/12/66

Protesters sit down in front of the Berkeley City Hall, awaiting a speech. Some demonstrators carry effigies labelled, "Famine," "Death," "Pestilence," and "War."

10/20/67

Youthful draft protesters hold signs and flags.

10/18/67

Tribune caption reads, "Protester hauled by feet to paddy wagon. One of scores arrested in today's demonstration."

10/18/67

Police clear the way for employees to enter Oakland's Armed Services Induction Center.

10/18/67

In front of the Oakland Armed Services Induction Center, police arrest an African American draft protester and haul him into a paddy wagon.

10/18/67

Joan Baez is led away from her sit-in in front of the Oakland Armed Services Induction Center by several Oakland police officers. She carries a flower in her right hand.

10/18/67

Joan Baez -- draft protester, folk singer, apple eater -- sits in front of the entrance to the Armed Services Induction Center with a group of other protesters.

10/18/67

A man with eyeglasses and a beard that screams 1967 wears a robe and holds a cup of coffee and some unidentified pastry while other anti-draft protesters mill about nearby.

10/18/67

Oakland police officers hold protesters at bay in front of the Oakland Armed Services Induction Center. The police appear to be leading people into a paddy wagon. A sign hung on a building on...

10/18/67

Police clear the street (Clay?) of protesters.

10/17/67

Fish-eye view of intersection of 16th and Clay Streets in downtown Oakland. Police officers have cordoned off the intersection, holding draft protesters at bay.

10/16/67

Protesters -- including one elderly lady -- clock the entrance to Oakland's Armed Services Induction Center.

10/16/67

Oakland police officers fill up a paddy wagon with arrested demonstrators.

10/16/67

Oakland police officers keep crowds of protesters at bay as they negotiate with a group that is blocking the entrance to the Induction Center.

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