The Hagley Vault

This week's Hagley Vault post is sourced from our collection of National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418) and documents a November 1962 protest against the trade association.

In the years after World War II, NAM encouraged its membership to participate in the growing military-industrial complex through initiatives like the National Defense Committee. By the 1960s, as public opposition to the Vietnam War and Cold War interventionism grew, anti-war protesters like the ones shown in this photograph criticized this position, and encouraged boycotts of major manufacturers with substantial public contracts with the Department of Defense, like General Electric, DuPont, Kodak, Eveready, Pyrex, and others.

Hagley's digital collection containing this photograph and others from the protest draws from Hagley's National Association of Manufacturers records (Accession 1411) collection and the National Association of…Read more...