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Salon
Salon
Politics
Lucian K. Truscott IV

Radicalization of American white youth

The photograph, in retrospect, seems quaint.  Taken in 1969, it depicts helmeted SDS Weathermen marching through the streets of Chicago during their "Days of Rage" demonstration. It shows young men and women, most of them college students or college-age, who were radicalized by the war in Vietnam.  The slogan for the demonstration, which lasted for three days in October, was "Bring the war home."

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