On 15th November 1969 more than half a million people marched through Washington against the Vietnam War. More than 40,000 people marched silently down Pennsylvania Avenue each bearing a placard with the name of a dead American soldier, or destroyed Vietnamese village. This footage is from a couple of years earlier, 18th April 1967, and is a contemporary newsreel about another anti-war march. | History Hit

On this day in 1963, 250,000 people marched in Washington, DC demanding civil rights for African Americans in the US. Among the organizers and speakers of the event was Rabbi Joachim Prinz, who had escaped Nazi Germany and became a prominent Jewish leader in America. A supporter of the civil right movement, he spoke about Jewish solidarity with the oppressed. | World Jewish Congress