He chronicles his experiences beginning with his working class background from his tour of duty in World War I, to tenure at Spelman College, and to his disposition of the Vietnam War. ... He did not go there expecting to play a role in the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movements. ... Being a veteran of World War I made him realize the horrors of war and why it occurs. ... After Japan he wrote a book to illustrate why the United States should withdraw from Vietnam immediately. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdraw was a deep critique questioning the morality of the war and questioning the motives ...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the history of Australia there have been a number of social movements and civil uprisings which have included: the McCarthy movement (1950s), Trade unionism (1950s), the movement against 54B and the Vietnam War (1960s), anti-war protests, anti-corporate globalisation, and ecological and green movements (Burgmann, 1993). ... Although this may be what many Australians would like to believe there is another history beginning to be told, that the Indigenous people of Australia tried in vain to keep control of their land and culture (Brisbane, n.d.). ... For example the anti-war ...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beginning as a student protest in a Parisian suburb, Nanterre,quickly spread to a general strike involving millions of French workers that temporarily paralysed the French economy. ... First of all, in terms of scale May 68 was the largest mass movement in France history, the French workers' movement, and the only general insurrection the overdeveloped world has known since World War II(Ross 4) There has never been a strike as powerful as May 68 that can be compared. ... It is the occurrence of May 68 is part of wave of the world-wide phenomenon which in part revolved around the issue of ...

• Word Count: 1575
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He was one of the first civil/human rights leaders to speak out against the Vietnam War at mass demonstrations around the country (quevivacorky.com). ... This was the decline of student activist and a beginning of a new generation of Chicanos. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography