Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
Part of the opposition to the Vietnam War
Crowd of people holding candles at a march at night to the White House, lead by Coretta Scott King as part of the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. (October 15, 1969)
Location	United States and Australia
Goals	Create peaceful mass action to end American involvement in the Vietnam War
Resulted in	Richard Nixon's "Silent majority" speech Growing protest movement

The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a massive demonstration and teach-in across the United States against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It took place on October 15, 1969,^[1] followed a month later, on November 15, 1969, by a large Moratorium March in Washington, D.C.

Fred Halstead writes that it was "the first time [the anti-war movement] reached the level of a full-fledged mass movement."^[2]