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The Brown Dog Affair

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Anti-Vivisection Movement in the United States

On November 20th 1907 a group of medical students tried to smash it with a sledgehammer 10 people were arrested and fined two days later more students rallied in support of their arrested classmates and against the magistrate who had levied the fine they tried to burn the magistrate in effigy but they couldn't get it to light and wound up throwing it in the temps. On December 11th protesters disrupted an anti-viva section society meeting shouting down the speakers setting off crackers and throwing quote quantities of a pungent chemical as protests continued students started burning dogs in effigY and marching with toy dogs in pale non-stakes meanwhile a variety of people came together in batter c to try

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