STATE MUSEUM EXHIBIT INCLUDES PEACE  MOVEMENT

At the South Carolina State Museum, a new exhibition opened on the anniversary of the Tet Offensive attacks that looks at both this momentous military struggle and the evolving peace movement in the United States.

While a little over half the exhibition focuses on the events leading up to Tet and its immediate aftermath, the rest of the exhibition reviews the growing peace movement in the United States and the struggle led by young college students such as Brett Bursey to protest American involvement in that troubled part of the world.  The local protest movement in Columbia that coalesced around the UFO Café established on Main Street across from Columbia City Hall is one of the important stories told.