Student Movements of the 1960s
Student Movements of the 1960s

Author: Alexander Cruden

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Published: 2012-08-22

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0737763728

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This fascinating volume explores the historical and cultural events leading up to and following the student movements of the 1960s. Readers will learn about issues surrounding the goals of the activists, black power, feminism, and the role of drugs and music. This book also includes personal narratives from people who experienced the student movements of the 1960s. Essay sources include Lyndon B. Johnson, Kathie Sarachild, Kathryn Jean Lopez, and the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities. Personal narratives include a girl's experience of feminism in the sixties, and Mario Savio's tense words about the California students who were facing trial.

Student Activism in Asia
Student Activism in Asia

Author: Meredith Leigh Weiss

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 081667969X

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Since World War II, students in East and Southeast Asia have led protest movements that toppled authoritarian regimes in countries such as Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. Elsewhere in the region, student protests have shaken regimes until they were brutally suppressed--most famously in China's Tiananmen Square and in Burma. But despite their significance, these movements have received only a fraction of the notice that has been given to American and European student protests of the 1960s and 1970s. The first book in decades to redress this neglect, Student Activism in Asia tells the story of student protest movements across Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, the contributors examine ten countries, focusing on those where student protests have been particularly fierce and consequential: China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. They explore similarities and differences among student movements in these countries, paying special attention to the influence of four factors: higher education systems, students' collective identities, students' relationships with ruling regimes, and transnational flows of activist ideas and inspirations. The authors include leading specialists on student activism in each of the countries investigated. Together, these experts provide a rich picture of an important tradition of political protest that has ebbed and flowed but has left indelible marks on Asia's sociopolitical landscape. Contributors: Patricio N. Abinales, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Prajak Kongkirati, Thammasat U, Thailand; Win Min, Vahu Development Institute; Stephan Ortmann, City U of Hong Kong; Mi Park, Dalhousie U, Canada; Patricia G. Steinhoff, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Mark R. Thompson, City U of Hong Kong; Teresa Wright, California State U, Long Beach.

"Education Not Ptotection"[:] Student Activism on Western North Carolina Campuses, 1960s-1970s

Author: Bailey Hope Lawrence

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The dialectic between pro-and-anti-Vietnam War supporters has been an overlooked part of the history of Vietnam War student activism. The divided baby boomer generation on college and university campuses during the 1960s and 1970s are the focus demographic of this study. Rather than present them as a coherent group of disaffected youth, as the media and many adults did at the time, this thesis will explore, within the scope of, how three college campuses in western North Carolina underscore the ways that baby boomers disagreed over events that defined their generation. The disagreements expressed by Vietnam war groups would grow into the articulation of the New Left and the New Right politics of the 1960s and 1970s. These separate political affiliations, which developed in the late 1960s, have historically been identified as incubated in two separate spaces. The New Left is famous for its prosperous beginnings on college campuses across the nation, while the New Right gained traction within working-class America during Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. However, the New Right's values can also be found on college campuses articulated through the public opinions of Vietnam veterans and conservative students. For western North Carolina college students the focus was on campus and student life improvement which dovetails in the womens liberation movement, free speech movement, and anti-censorship movements. The formulation of student's rights movements were articulated on campuses such as Appalachian State University, University of North Carolina at Asheville, and Western Carolina University, which serves as an example of small regionally comprehensive universities student activism which serve larger political purposes than they have been given credit for.

Sitting in and Speaking Out
Sitting in and Speaking Out

Author: Jeffrey A. Turner

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0820335932

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In Sitting In and Speaking Out, Jeffrey A. Turner examines student movements in the South to grasp the nature of activism in the region during the turbulent 1960s. Turner argues that the story of student activism is too often focused on national groups like Students for a Democratic Society and events at schools like Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley. Examining the activism of black and white students, he shows that the South responded to national developments but that the response had its own trajectory--one that was rooted in race. Turner looks at such events as the initial desegregation of campuses; integration's long aftermath, as students learned to share institutions; the Black Power movement; and the antiwar movement. Escalating protest against the Vietnam War tested southern distinctiveness, says Turner. The South's tendency toward hawkishness impeded antiwar activism, but once that activism arrived, it was--as in other parts of the country--oriented toward events at national and global scales. Nevertheless, southern student activism retained some of its core characteristics. Even in the late 1960s, southern protesters' demands tended toward reform, often eschewing calls to revolution increasingly heard elsewhere. Based on primary research at more than twenty public and private institutions in the deep and upper South, including historically black schools, Sitting In and Speaking Out is a wide-ranging and sensitive portrait of southern students navigating a remarkably dynamic era.

Cold War University
Cold War University

Author: Matthew Levin

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2013-07-17

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0299292835

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As the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated in the 1950s and 1960s, the federal government directed billions of dollars to American universities to promote higher enrollments, studies of foreign languages and cultures, and, especially, scientific research. In Cold War University, Matthew Levin traces the paradox that developed: higher education became increasingly enmeshed in the Cold War struggle even as university campuses became centers of opposition to Cold War policies. The partnerships between the federal government and major research universities sparked a campus backlash that provided the foundation, Levin argues, for much of the student dissent that followed. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, one of the hubs of student political activism in the 1950s and 1960s, the protests reached their flashpoint with the 1967 demonstrations against campus recruiters from Dow Chemical, the manufacturers of napalm. Levin documents the development of student political organizations in Madison in the 1950s and the emergence of a mass movement in the decade that followed, adding texture to the history of national youth protests of the time. He shows how the University of Wisconsin tolerated political dissent even at the height of McCarthyism, an era named for Wisconsin's own virulently anti-Communist senator, and charts the emergence of an intellectual community of students and professors that encouraged new directions in radical politics. Some of the events in Madison—especially the 1966 draft protests, the 1967 sit-in against Dow Chemical, and the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing—have become part of the fabric of "The Sixties," touchstones in an era that continues to resonate in contemporary culture and politics.

British Student Activism in the Long Sixties
British Student Activism in the Long Sixties

Author: Caroline Hoefferle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 041589381X

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Based on empirical evidence derived from university and national archives across the country and interviews with participants, British Student Activism in the Long Sixtiesreconstructs the world of university students in the 1960s and 1970s. Student accounts are placed within the context of a wide variety of primary and secondary sources from across Britain and the world, making this project the first book-length history of the British student movement to employ literary and theoretical frameworks which differentiate it from most other histories of student activism to date. Globalization, especially of mass communications, made British students aware of global problems such as the threat of nuclear weapons, the Vietnam War, racism, sexism and injustice. British students applied these global ideas to their own unique circumstances, using their intellectual traditions and political theories which resulted in unique outcomes. British student activists effectively gained support from students, staff, and workers for their struggle for student’s rights to unionize, freely assemble and speak, and participate in university decision-making. Their campaigns effectively raised public awareness of these issues and contributed to significant national decisions in many considerable areas.

The Black Campus Movement
The Black Campus Movement

Author: Ibram X. Kendi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1137016507

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This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.