In the late 1960s, both members of countercultural movements and American society in general, came together to convey their desire to end the Vietnam War.
While initially the hippie counterculture movement was the one that triggered the protests, soon the results of the war ended up unifying the entire American society under the same thought. The pacifist movement saw the participation of students, mothers of soldiers, African-Americans, hippies, educators, religious, academics, journalists, lawyers, doctors, military veterans and in general all the factions of the American society of the time.