Museum of Resistance and Resilience

Ongoing Significance:

It later became a more general symbol of peace that spread across the globe. It kept adapting to take on many different meanings for peace and justice. In the US, the symbol was first used by the civil rights movements. Although in America the symbol lost its association with nuclear disarmament, it was most likely imported by Bayard Rustin, a close collaborator of Martin Luther King Jr., who had participated in the London march in 1958.
During the escalation of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the peace symbol was again adopted by anti-war protesters and the counterculture movement, finding its stereotypical place on Volkswagen buses and acid-wash T-shirts.
It continued to travel far and wide, appearing in the former Czechoslovakia as a symbol against Soviet invasion, and in South Africa to oppose Apartheid.

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