Anti-war demonstration in front of the 2121 Building on 8th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.
The demonstrators are specifically protesting war taxes, carrying signs that read, "End War Taxes / Cost of Vietnam War - $30,000,000,000 per year"; "2/3 of U.S. budget goes to the military. End the war NOW"; "End War Tax! Stop Imperialism / End the Illegal War!"; "...
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Photographs Anti-war demonstration in front of the 2121 Building on 8th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Bruchac, Edouard; Nesbitt, Charles |
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Photographs Demonstrations; Students; Vietnam war, 1961-1975--Protest movements; Birmingham (Ala.); Jefferson County (Ala.) |
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The demonstrators are specifically protesting war taxes, carrying signs that read, "End War Taxes / Cost of Vietnam War - $30,000,000,000 per year"; "2/3 of U.S. budget goes to the military. End the war NOW"; "End War Tax! Stop Imperialism / End the Illegal War!"; "Why? U.S. spends taxes $30,000,000,000 a year in 'Nam / Birmingham's share of this money could BUILD 50 - 20 classroom schools / 5,000 - new housing units / 2 1,000 bed hospitals / Stop War Tax"; "End High Taxes / War & Repression / Workers Power! / Young Workers Liberation League"; "Tax Money to Humanistic Humans not to the Pentagon / End the War! / End Poverty & Hunger"; and "Use Taxes for Progress Not Destruction." One young woman is wearing a Birmingham-Southern College shirt. |
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BN0027359_06BN0027359Anti-war demonstration in front of the 2121 Building on 8th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.The demonstrators are specifically protesting war taxes, carrying signs that read, "End War Taxes / Cost of Vietnam War - $30,000,000,000 per year"; "2/3 of U.S. budget goes to the military. End the war NOW"; "End War Tax! Stop Imperialism / End the Illegal War!"; "Why? U.S. spends taxes $30,000,000,000 a year in 'Nam / Birmingham's share of this money could BUILD 50 - 20 classroom schools / 5,000 - new housing units / 2 1,000 bed hospitals / Stop War Tax"; "End High Taxes / War & Repression / Workers Power! / Young Workers Liberation League"; "Tax Money to Humanistic Humans not to the Pentagon / End the War! / End Poverty & Hunger"; and "Use Taxes for Progress Not Destruction." One young woman is wearing a Birmingham-Southern College shirt.1970-04-151970-1979Bruchac, Edouard; Nesbitt, CharlesBirmingham News70-02007Demonstrations; Students; Vietnam war, 1961-1975--Protest movements; Birmingham (Ala.); Jefferson County (Ala.)Still imageNegatives (Photographs); Black-and-white negatives2000 PPI TIFFAlabama Media GroupAlabama Media Group CollectionAlabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AlabamaEnglishCopyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by the Alabama Media Group, http://www.alabamamediagroup.comhttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/108129 |
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Anti-war demonstration in front of the 2121 Building on 8th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. |
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Anti-war demonstration in front of the 2121 Building on 8th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. |
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Bruchac, Edouard; Nesbitt, Charles |
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Bruchac, Edouard; Nesbitt, Charles |
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