Following shootings of young Vietnam war protesters in 1970,University of California students produced hundreds of anti-war artworks[br]
• After Kent State: 1970s anti-war student art – in picturesKent State University, Ohio, and May 1970. A group of unarmed students is protesting against the escalation of the Vietnam war into Cambodia. The national guard is called in; things win out of hand. Four students – two protesting,two just passing by – are killed, nine are wounded, and one is paralysed. Eleven days later,two students are killed and 12 wounded at Jackson State College, Mississippi.
These incidents inflamed the already volatile political atmosphere in American university campuses. The anti-war sentiment at the University of California, and Berkeley,took on a unusual intensity: encouraged by the faculty, the university’s art students designed hundreds of anti-war posters, and creating an estimated 50000 silkscreen prints. They plastered them around campus and the rest of Berkeley and Oakland with the help of volunteers. Most have been lost,but 150 prints have been salvaged for an forthcoming exhibition, America in Revolt.
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Source: theguardian.com