October 1966 antiwar march drew vicious counterpicket attacks

Evidence

I took the subway in from Queens for the October 16 march, which I joined at East Ninety-Fourth Street, and in addition to noting the friends I encountered (all, I now realize, red diaper babies) wrote in my journal that “the march was huge (more than one mile long, at least 20,000 peo.) The counterpickets were exceptional for their concentrated hatred. Signs: ‘Get a Haircut,’ ‘May God Have Pity on Your Souls,’ ‘Go Back to Cuba,’ ‘This March is a Disgrace’ etc. Plus some egg throwing and a few fights which I heard about but didn’t see.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1940

Categorization

• SEED: Concrete archive of the counter-movement’s rhetoric — ‘Get a Haircut,’ ‘Go Back to Cuba’ — useful for any piece on how backlash performs class/identity signaling, mirroring the immodesty-panic article’s method.