The Student Peace Union (SPU), emerged in 1959 on college campuses across the country. The SPU was more liberal than radical. After the Joseph McCarthy­inspired dissolution of Communist and Socialist organizations on campuses in the 1950s, the SPU became the only option remaining for nascent activists. Unwilling to settle for fewer nuclear weapons, the students desired a wholesale restructuring of American society.

Brothers Phil and Dan Berrigan, and seven others, held a dramatic protest against the Vietnam War. They invaded the selective service office in Catonsville, Maryland, pulled draft files out of their cabinets, piled them outside, and set them afire with homemade napalm. The protesters, immediately arrested, became known as the Catonsville Nine. They were convicted, and when their appeals were exhausted, Phil Berrigan and Dan Berrigan refused to give themselves up and went into hiding.

This button was issued by the Coalition for a Democratic Alternative, organized by Allard Lowenstein. The donor worked for the McCarthy campaign in New York City in 1968.

The Student Peace Union (SPU), emerged in 1959 on college campuses across the country. The SPU was more liberal than radical. After the Joseph McCarthy­inspired dissolution of Communist and Socialist organizations on campuses in the 1950s, the SPU became the only option remaining for nascent activists. Unwilling to settle for fewer nuclear weapons, the students desired a wholesale restructuring of American society.

The Mississippi Federal Democratic Party, or M.F.D.P., was founded by the leadership of the Mississippi African American movement in 1964 because the regular Democratic Party there represented only the white power structure. They initiated federal litigation challenging the discriminatory voter registration practices of Sunflower County, Mississippi. The M.F.D.P. succeeded in forcing Sunflower County to register all voters without the discriminatory literacy test.

On April 15, 1965, 400,000 people marched from Central Park to the United Nations head quarters in protest of the Vietnam War. The protested were addressed by Martin Luther King, Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmicael, and Benjamin Spock. The protest was organized by MLK's Spring Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam."

The Freedom Ride CORE, established in 1961, organized dozens of bus trips of Northern studnets and Civil Rights activists to the Deep South. Sit-ins were one commonly practiced form of activism used to protest of the racial segration in the South.

Starting in 1961, the Freedom Ride CORE organized dozens of trips to the Deep South by Northern students and Civil Rights activists. The goal of these trips was to protest the racial segragation in the Southern United States.

This button was issued in support of the Anti-Persian Gulf War movement.

W.E.B. DuBois was an early Civil Rights Leader of African-Americans. He wanted to see the African-American community develop control over its own churches, schools, social clubs, and businesses. He believed that a community which controlled its own basic institutions was in a better position to make its own decisions and work for its own advancement. The W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America were an alternative to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.