![]() This is a partial list of actions, derived mostly from reports compiled by the National Strike Information Center, a student group at Brandeis University. Here we map and list 883 campuses where protest activities were reported. Authorities suspended classes on 97 campuses and 20 remained closed for the remainder of school year. Mass protests, marches, building takeovers, attacks on ROTC facilties, clashes with police were reported at many. Calls for a nationwide student strike escalated and in the days that followed students at hundreds of campuses boycotted classes. Five days days later, Ohio National Guard troops fired into a crowd protesting at Kent State University, killing four, wounding nine. This secret widening of the Vietnam conflict drew immediate condemnation around the the world and fierce protests from antiwar activists in the United States, especially on college campuses. ![]() On April 30, 1970, President Nixon announced that American forces had invaded Cambodia in an effort to disrupt North Vietnamese supply lines. The May 1970 antiwar strikes became one of the largest coordinated sequences of disruptive protests in American history, with walkouts spreading across more than 883 campuses involving more than a million students. May 1970 Student Antiwar Strikes by Amanda Miller
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