The Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee was a coalition of organizations which coordinated events opposing the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s. It coordinated its constituent groups to stage anti-war parades, rallies, and "peace-ins" primarily in New York City. Named after Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, it was based on 17th Street near Union Square. At the start of 1968, it included about 150 groups. A rally and march it organized with the Spring Mobilization against the War in Vietnam in 1967 featured Martin Luther King Jr. , Stokely Carmichael , Benjamin Spock , and Dave Dellinger in Central Park .
4-538: Leader Norma Becker was a member of the established War Resisters League . Chairman David Dellinger later became known as one of the Chicago Eight . This article about an organization in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a political organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Norma Becker Norma Becker (1930–2006)
8-527: Was "recruited into the civil rights movement by Sheriff 'Bull' Connor of Birmingham [Alabama]." Appalled by media accounts of Connor's use of dogs to subdue civil rights demonstrators, Becker went South to teach in the summer Freedom Schools. Over the next years, she rose to leadership in the burgeoning movement against the war in Vietnam. In 1965, she helped to start the Peace Parade Committee. In 1970 she
12-756: Was a founder of the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee , which drew tens of thousands to protest the Vietnam War , and of the Mobilization for Survival coalition. She served as chairperson of the pacifist War Resisters League from 1977 to 1983. Born in the Bronx in 1930, Becker graduated from Hunter College in 1951. She began teaching social studies at a Harlem junior high school and received her master's degree in education from Columbia University in 1961. In 1963, as she said later, she
16-554: Was on the working committee of War Tax Resistance, a group that was practicing and advocating tax refusal as an anti-war measure. In 1977, after the Vietnam War ended, Becker helped create the Mobilization for Survival, which linked the emerging movement against nuclear power to opponents of nuclear weapons and the wider antiwar movement. On June 12, 1982, the "Mobe" drew some 700,000 people to Central Park, in what The New York Times later described as "a boisterous and festive call for
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