The International Student Strike Against the Vietnam War took place on November 13, 1969.

Music played a part in this all-day event at the University of Minnesota:

• Phantasmagoria played on Northrop Plaza from 11:00 to noon.  The band was made up of students from St. Paul Murray High School, including Arne Shulstad, who reported – then and now – that it was really too cold in November to be playing guitar outside.  The Minnesota Daily – and I – will delicately delete the expletives.

Courtesy Arne Shulstad

• After a rally with speeches (including one by Bonnie Usan, a student at St. Louis Park High School), and a march to the Old Federal Office Building there was a 4:30 dance at Coffman Union featuring local band Showtime I and II.

More on the Vietnam war at home, focusing on St. Louis Park, is available here.