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A lesson on dissent from a Vietnam War protester who joined the US military – and then faced execution after his protest didn’t stop

  • Written by Rodney Coates, Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
A lesson on dissent from a Vietnam War protester who joined the US military – and then faced execution after his protest didn’t stopAnti-Vietnam War demonstrators raise their fists during a rally in New York on April 27, 1968. Bev Grant/Getty Images

During the late 1960s, when protests against the Vietnam War erupted across the country, college campuses emerged as places of more than intellectual debate over U.S foreign policy and the country’s deeply racist history.

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