SDS
SDS

Author: Kirkpatrick Sale

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13:

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The Beats
The Beats

Author: Harvey Pekar

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0809016494

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Details the history of the Beat movement, which began in the 1940s, and describes the lives of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs; along with other writers, artists, and events in a graphic novel format.

Supporting Civics Education with Student Activism
Supporting Civics Education with Student Activism

Author: Pablo A. Muriel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1000198855

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This book empowers teachers to support student activists. The authors examine arguments for promoting student activism, explore state and national curriculum standards, suggest activist projects, and report examples of student individual and group activism. By offering suggestions for engaging students as activists across the K-12 curriculum and by including the stories of student activists who became lifetime activists, the book demonstrates how activism can serve to bolster democracy and be a component of rich, experiential learning. Including interviews with student and teacher activists, this volume highlights issues such as racial and immigrant justice, anti-gun violence, and climate change.

Inspiring Participatory Democracy
Inspiring Participatory Democracy

Author: Tom Hayden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1317257480

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The famous 1962 Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) introduced the concept of participatory democracy to popular discourse and practice. In Inspiring Participatory Democracy Tom Hayden, one of the principal architects of the statement, analyses its historical impact and relevance to today's movements. Inspiring Participatory Democracy includes the full transcript of the Port Huron statment and shows how it played an important role in the movements for black civil rights, against the Vietnam war and for the Freedom of Information Act. Published during the year of Port Huron's 50th anniversary, Inspiring Participatory Democracy will be of great interest to readers interested in social history, politics and social activism.

The Proper Role of Higher Education in a Democratic Society
The Proper Role of Higher Education in a Democratic Society

Author: Vincent Bowhay

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781799877455

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"This book of contributed chapters is for educators who want to improve their understanding of the role higher education can play in developing students who are actively engaged in democratic processes and civic engagement opportunities"--