History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 2001 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Teach-Ins
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The idea
In April nineteen sixty-five SDS organised a march on Washington against the war in Vietnam; about twenty thousand people came.
In practice
University of Michigan faculty suspending classes that same week for a twenty-four-hour teach-in on the war.
Where people slip
On May fifteenth the first national teach-in was held at one hundred twenty-two colleges and universities, the anchor records.
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