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"I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies." --Benjamin Spock, 1988
Prominent participants in the antiwar movement included Dr. Benjamin Spock, Robert Lowell, Harry Belafonte, and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.--from The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Copyright © 1999 by Oxford UP.
Michael S. Foley is assistant professor of history at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island. Mike on his related future projects: "One will be an edited collection of letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock in which ordinary Americans expressed their views of the war in Vietnam. Amazingly, Spock appears to have kept every letter written to him (his papers are deposited at Syracuse University) and during the mid and late 1960s much of his mail focused on Vietnam.
As the candidate of the People's Party, Spock ran for president in 1972. The People's Party was a coalition of radical organizations which called for free medical care, legalization of abortion, publicly funded child care, a guaranteed minimum family income, and the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. military forces abroad. In the 10 states where his name appeared on the ballot, Spock received 79,000 votes. From RESIST
From Dr. Martin Luther King: Later that month, King and Benjamin Spock developed plans for "Vietnam Summer," a project which would mobilize grassroots opposition to the war by developing a nationwide network of volunteers. King, along with Joseph Rauh, vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, organized another antiwar group, "Negotiation Now," which sought to obtain one million signatures from people opposing the War.