Remembering Walter Teague, a Strong-Willed Giant of the Anti-War Movement

eague devoted the ten years of his life to humanizing the Vietnamese people and bringing an end to America’s war against them. In addition to popularizing the use of the Viet Cong flag in antiwar marches, Teague created the biggest repository of Vietnamese literature and film this side of the Atlantic at his Chelsea loft and spent countless evenings screening movies and hawking pamphlets at the Free School and on the streets of Greenwich Village. And he enjoyed the challenge of debating passers-by even if it elicited some angry retorts. “It’s amazing,” he told the Guardian in December 1965, “but so far nobody’s been hurt.” More

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