![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson-and all the more urgently because his jingoist opponent Barry Goldwater was running on a pro-escalation platform. An initially small group of professors literally taught the rest of the country why the war was wrong.įor many academics, recalled the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, a central figure in the University of Michigan teach-in, Johnson’s escalation wasĪ personal as well as a political betrayal….ust three months before they had been campaigning to an unprecedented extent in the presidential election for the so-called peace candidate, Mr. Though it was later eclipsed-notably in the media and, thus, the popular mind-by younger noisier protests, for about a year and a half the nation’s faculties, with the assistance of graduate students and some undergraduates, provided the leadership and the intellectual framework for the growing challenge to the escalating conflict. It was so effective a vehicle for dissent that the academic community quickly became the main source of opposition to the war. ![]() The escalation of the Vietnam War in 1965 brought about the creation of a new form of protest-the teach-in. ![]()
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