Remembering the march for peace

Students protest the Vietnam War

May 25, 2012
by Mark Anderson  |   media@wfu.edu  |   336.758.5237

Wake Forest wasn’t exactly a hotbed for campus unrest and student activism in the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s. But one night 42 years ago, about 600 students marched arm-in-arm up Wake Forest Road to President James Ralph Scales’ home and demanded an end to the Vietnam War and the cancellation of final exams so students could work for peace.

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