In January , police used clubs on 400 anti-war protestors outside of a dinner for U.S. Secretary of State Rusk . In February , students from Harvard , Radcliffe , and Boston University held a four-day hunger strike to protest the war . 10,000 West Berlin students held a sit-in against American involvement in Vietnam . People in Canada protested the war by mailing 5,000 copies of the paperback , '' Manual for Draft Age Immigrants to Canada '' to the United States . On March 6 , 500 New York University ( NYU ) students demonstrated against Dow Chemical because the company was the principal manufacturer of napalm , used by the U.S. military in Vietnam . On March 17 , an anti-war demonstration in Grosvenor Square , London , ended with 86 people injured and 200 demonstrators arrested . Japanese students protested the presence of the American military in Japan because of the Vietnam War . In March , British students turned violent in their anti-war protests ( opposing the Vietnam War ) , physically attacking the British defense secretary , the secretary of state for education and the Home Secretary . In August , the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was disrupted by five days of street demonstrations by thousands of anti-war protesters . Chicago 's mayor escalated the riots with excessive police presence and by ordering up the National Guard and the army to suppress the protests . In September , the women 's liberation movement gained international recognition when it demonstrated at the annual Miss America beauty pageant . The week-long protest and its disruption of the pageant gained the movement much needed attention in the press
1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
Protests of 1968