Although the media often portrayed the student antiwar movement as aggressive and widespread, only 10% of the 2500 colleges in the United States had violent protests throughout the Vietnam War years. Doves claimed that the war was wellintentioned but a disastrously wrong mistake in an otherwise benign foreign policy. [79], Women were a large part of the antiwar movement, even though they were sometimes relegated to second-class status within the organizations or faced sexism within opposition groups. He also announced the initiation of the Paris Peace Negotiations with Vietnam in that speech. (Ross D. Franklin/AP) Gift. As the war continued, and with the new media coverage, the movement snowballed and popular music reflected this. [88], In October 1967 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on resolutions urging President Johnson to request an emergency session of the United Nations security council to consider proposals for ending the war.[89]. [50] This issue was treated at length in a January 4, 1970 New York Times article titled "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random" Archived November 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Although in 1967 there was a smaller field of draft-eligible black men, 29 percent, versus 63 percent of white men, 64 percent of eligible black men were chosen to serve in the war through conscription, compared to only 31 percent of eligible white men. As public support decreased, opposition grew. According to historians Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin, SDS's first Stop the Draft Week of October 1967 was "inspired by Black Power [and] emboldened by the ghetto rebellions." A crowd of 4,000 demonstrated against the U.S. war in London on July 3 and scuffled with police outside the U.S. embassy. Tell How They Hijacked Ship,", "U.S. August Gallup poll shows 53% said it was a mistake to send troops to Vietnam. New York: Atria, 2009. [77][78] From 1969 to 1970, student protesters attacked 197 ROTC buildings on college campuses. Americans who opposed the Vietnam war were called Doves.