down, and 73 colleges reported significant violence in their protests. On that weekend, 100,000 people gathered to protest in Washington. By May 12, over 150 colleges were on strike (VN H. and P.) However many campus demonstrations and general antiwar activity declined after the spring of 1970. The number and size of marches and protests declined as reported by the mass media. The antiwar movement was conduct by many leaders who try to convince the public that the Vietnam war as a bad thing for the United States. One of leaders was Samuel Brown. He spent the time in prison because he refused to serve in the military. After he came out prison he spent the rest of the war years trying to mobilize public opinion against the war. Even though the antiwar movement had many leaders not many of them are found in book because colleges and the common people prepared the most important events. Many groups as the Black Panthers also united forces to support the antiwar movement. The black people didn’t want to fight the Vietnamese “ I don’t want to go to the war, Idon’t want to fight the Vietnamese they have don’t nothing wrong to me”(Mabie. Vietnam here and there .65) In 1973 the Vietnam war came to an end for the Americans. After the lost of thousands of American’s soldier, millions of dollarsand the constant pressure created by the antiwar movements, the president by that time Richard Nixon did not have any other choice than to put an end to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The Triumph of the antiwar movement was accomplish because of the continuous effort of all the people who form part of the movement. They express themselves over and over until they were heard. Many off them went to jail because things they did like burn his draft registration card publicly. Other people even killed themselves to show the world that they did not like the war and want the Americans soldiers to be out of Vietnam. Ot...
