UMass protests & coverage

Photographs of Dow Chemical and Vietnam War protest at UMass, Feb 1968

Demonstration against Dow Chemical Co. and the war in Vietnam outside Whitmore Hall, UMass Amherst: Protesters lining the ramp to the entrance to Whitmore Hall, Herter Hall (under construction) in background: , ca. February 15, 1968

From a series of images of the mass student protests organized by the Ad Hoc Committee On Dow, a "theatrical approach" to protesting the Vietnam War and the use of napalm (see UMass Daily Collegian Feb. 14, 1968).

 

 

See how Vietnam War news and the protest movement were covered in the UMass newspaper, the Massachusetts Daily Collegian:

MDC clippings, 1967-1968

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