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St. Lawrence University: Street Art Graphics; Message from Night Raiders urging young draftees to burn their draft cards and condemning the unjust war in Vietnam. "Soldiers, sailors, draftees: your commanders have lied about the war. Why die and kill for a lie?" Message urging young draftees to burn their draft cards.Night Raiders is a group of U.S. political stickers from the '60s and ‘70s protesting the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism, and calling for racial equality among blacks and whites. "Night Raiders" here may refer to military "night riders" and civilian vigilante "Knight Riders" of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as "freedom riders" during the U.S. civil rights era.
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1960 1980
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ARTstorKeywords
- Draft
- Military Personnel
- Pacifism
- Peace Movements
- Political Activists
- Protest Movements
- Soldiers
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975