Grinnell 14

The Grinnell 14 were a group of 16 students from Grinnell College, Iowa US, who organized a political protest in November 1961 in support of a ban on atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.[1] This took place during the Cold War, after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Berlin Crisis of 1961, and before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fourteen students drove to Washington, D.C., where they staged a three-day fast, while two others remained at school to provide communication support for news media and other student groups.[1] The protest has been credited as the start of the student peace movement by Tom Hayden of the Students for a Democratic Society.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Coyote, Peter; Bisson, Terry (Fall 2011). "The Grinnell 14 Go to Washington: How one well-orchestrated road trip started the modern student peace movement" (PDF). The Grinnell Magazine: 18–25.