DAY BY DAY: 1968

Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc during the Buddhist Crisis 1963 in South Vietnam. Submitted by: Rise Kuo

Amy Solomon becomes first woman to register for classes at Yale. Submitted by: Natalie Spindler

Submitted by: Evan Kielmeyer

Anti-war protest in Harlem, 1968. SUbmited by: Amy Gately

Cal Tech 1968 Star Trek Protest. Submitted by: Benjamin Twohig

“During the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, two black athletes staged a silent demonstration against racial discrimination in the United States.” Submitted by: Ziyang Xiang

Civil Rights marchers wear placards while US National Guards block the street in Memphis, TN on March 29, 1968. Image from: the Atlantic. Submitted by: Hyun Ji Yim

Josef Koudelka / Magnum Photos / East News. Submitted by: James Cacciola

Robert F. Kennedy campaigns in Detroit, May 1968. Photo by Andrew Sacks. Submitted by: Stavros Piperis

An American soldier with the First Army Division sleeps atop a sandbag bunker during a monsoon downpour following heavy Vietcong sniper and mortar fire near Phuc Vihn, South Vietnam. Photo by Toshio Sakai/UPI. 1968 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography. Submitted by: Nolan Constantine

Youths carrying crucifix on their way to attend burial of a friend shot by the Russians on August 27, 1968 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Submitted by: Josh Elbaz

A student hurling rocks at the police in Paris during the May 1968 student uprising. Submitted by: William Knight

April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Several of his friends point out his attacker, as King’s body lies at their feet. Submitted by: Daniel Young

The first interracial kiss on television seen on “Star Trek.” Submitted by: Joan Kennedy

Striking members of Memphis Local 1733 hold signs whose slogan symbolized the sanitation workers’ 1968 campaign. 1968

Students standing outside a barricaded Hamilton Hall during the 1968 Columbia University student protests. Submitted by Luis Fialho

Ouyang Xiang, son of a denounced former Party secretary in Heilongjiang province, being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for sending an unsigned letter to the local revolutionary committee in his father’s defense, Harbin, November 1968. The sign around his neck bears his name and the date of his offending letter. When he tried to shout ‘Long live Chairman Mao,’ his mouth was stuffed with a glove. Several days later he was pushed out of a third-story window; the official report called his death a suicide. Submitted by Stephanie Liu

Stonewall Inn, Manhattan, a few days after the Stonwall uprising (June 28, 1969). Larry Morris, The New York Times. Submitted by: Daniel Garzon-Maldonado

Bobby Hutton and Bobby Seale lead a contingent of Black Panthers carrying loaded rifles in a provocative protest at the state Capitol in Sacramento in May 1967, just months after bursting onto the civil rights scene. Submitted by: Emily Mrenna

1968 Paris Riots. Submitted by: Jacob Hermann

Student Protests in Pakistan against the military dictatorship government led by Ayub Khan (Shughal). Submitted by: Terrence O’Brien

South Vietnamese peasant Do Chuc holds up the mutilated hand of his son, Do Ba, as he tells reporters at the Song My Resettlement Center about the slaying of 370 civilians in the hamlet of Tu Cung which became known as the My Lai Massacre. Submitted by: Andrew Mettias

2,500 people took part in the 24-hour Lie-In for Peace at Victoria Park in early July 1969, when the war in Vietnam was at its height. The My Lai massacre of about 300 civilians by U.S. troops had occurred that March. Submitted by: Andrew Mattias

Some 15,000 Latino high school students in Los Angeles walk out of classes to press their demand for a better education. (Los Angeles Public Library). Submitted by: Michaela Gacnik

Helmets used in Japanese student protests in Universities. Helmets often had slogans or the names of the department the student belonged to to show solidarity. In 1968 when protests at universities was “peaking” roughly 70% of universities and colleges were protesting corruption within administrations or poor treatment of students. Submitted by Alicia Clow

The sign reads: “Anyone who has nowhere to go, come join us! Fight against the Enterprise. Beheiren (acronym for Vietnam peace association)”. The anti-Vietnam war movement in Japan was very big. Some activists helped American soldiers defect, and many saw the US fighting in Asia as an extension of their grievances with the unequal US-Japan security alliance that came under major debate and protest in 1960 and again in 1970. Submitted by: Alicia Clow

Civil Rights Protest 1960s. Photographer unknown. Submitted by: Victoria Trinh

Solidarity march honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after his assassination. Memphis, Tennessee, April 6, 1968. Benedict J. Fernandez. Submitted by: Victoria Trinh

Washington D.C., October 21, 1967. During a march on the Pentagon to protest the war in Vietnam, Jan Rose Kasmir presented a wonderful picture of peace-loving American youth. Submitted by: Chris Zhang.

Jill Freedman Policeman with Baton Facing Demonstrators, Poor Peoples Campaign, Washington, D.C., 1968 Vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1968. Submitted by: Abyan Mohamed

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, one of the leaders of the French student protests, in front of the Sorbonne, Paris, May 1968. Submitted by: Patrick Fitzgerald

Martin Luther King Jr. Funeral Procession. Submitted by: Terence O’Brien

Medic James E. Callahan of Pittsfield, Mass., gives mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying soldier in war zone D, about 50 miles northeast of Saigon, June 17, 1967. Thirty-one men of the 1st Infantry Division were reported killed in the guerrilla ambush, with more than 100 wounded. Photo by Henri Huet. Submitted by: Francine Almeda.

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