This sentiment generally contributed to the negative feelings toward the war and confusion lead to objections and protests established by college students, now known as the Vietnam War Antiwar …show more content…
The group was primarily concerned with equality, economic justice, peace, and participatory democracy. With these ideas in mind, they began operating under the principles of the “Port Huron Statement,” a platform written by Tom Hayden, Robert Haber, and other student collaborators, issued in 1962. The document stated, “We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit” (Hayden). People all over the nation grew a fondness to these ideas and principles, particularly young, college aged students, as it was an association of young people of the left. The organization grew slowly over the next couple of years until the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the early months of 1965 (Students for a Democratic Society…). As word of the ideas of the Students for a Democratic Society began to spread, students all over the nation began protesting the Vietnam War in a variety of