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Encyclopedia > Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee

During the mid-1960s, the New York Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee coordinated anti-war parades which involved perhaps hundreds of organizations.


Leader Norma Becker was member of the established War Resisters League. Chairman David Dellinger would later become known as one of the Chicago Eight.


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