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HISTORY OF STUDENT ACTIVISM
Below are some resources to check out if you are interested in the history of student activism. You never know what lessons you may learn from those whose actions have brought about change in the past. If you know of resources you would like to see here please tell us.
1920’S & EARLIER:
• The Rights of Youth: American Colleges and Student Revolt, 1798-1815, Steven J. Novak, Harvard University Press, 1977.
1930-50s:
• When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941, Robert Cohen, Oxford University Press, 1993. Read an essay from this book: Activist Impulses: Campus Radicalism in the 1930s, Robert Cohen. (New Deal Network web site)
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Revolt of the Depression Generation: America's First Mass Student Protest Movement, 1929-1940, Robert Cohen.
• Student Movements, 1930s, Robert Cohen, From the
Encyclopedia of the American Left, New York : Oxford University Press, 1998, edited by Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, p. 799-802. (New Deal Network web site)
1960's-70’s-80's:
• In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Claybourne Carson, Harvard Univ Press, 1995.
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Student Protest: The Sixties and After, Gerald J. DeGroot, Longman, 1998, Carnegie Foundation, 1971.
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SDS, Kirkpatrick Sale, Vintage Books, 1973.
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Long March, Short Spring: The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad, Barbara and John Ehrenreich, Monthly Review Press, 1969.
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Students In Revolt, Seymour Martin Lipset, Philip G. Altbach, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.
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Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960’s, Kenneth J. Heineman, Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
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Black Power and Student Rebellion, James McEvoy, Abraham Miller, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1969
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Student Protest, 1960-1970: An Analysis of Issues And Speeches, Donald E. Phillips, Lanham, 1985.
• Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969, Roger Rosenblatt, Little Brown & Company, 1997.
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Black Students In Protest: Origins of the Black Student Movement, Anthony Orum, American Sociological Association, 1968.
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The Children, David Halberstam, The Ballantine Publishing Company, 1998.
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Democracy Is In The Streets, James Miller, Simon & Schuster, 1987.
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Rebellion in the University, Seymour Martin Lipset, Little, Brown, & Company, 1972.
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In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, Susan Brownmiller, Dial Press, 1999.
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Fists & Flowers: A Social Psychological Interpretation of Student Dissent, Alice Ross Gold, Richard Christie, Lucy Norman Freidman, 1976.
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The Dynamics of University Protest, Donald Light Jr., John Spiegel, Nelson Hall Publishers, 1977.
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Inquire. Learn. Reflect. The Evolution of Student Activism, Carol Cartwright, 1995.
• "Give Peace a Chance: College Student Protest and the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-75", Davis, Wanda M. and Dulski, Christine, American Educational History Journal 2001 28: 55-59.
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La Raza Unida Party and the Chicano Student Movement in California, Carlos Muñoz, Mario Barrera, 1980.
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New Voices: Student Activism in the 80’s and 90’s, Tony Vellela, South End Press, 1988
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Paradoxes of Protest: Black Student Activism in a White University, William H. Exum, Temple University Press, 1985
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Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah, Afshin Matin-Asgari, Mazda Pub, 2001
• The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Activism in China and Taiwan, Teresa Wright, University of Hawaii Press, 2001.
• The Asian American Movement, William Wei, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
1990-PRESENT:
• Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus, Paul Rogat Loeb, Rutgers University Press, 1994
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After the Boom: The Politics of Generation X, Stephen C. Craig, Stephen Earl Bennett, 1997
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Freedom’s Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity, Robert A. Rhoads, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
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Campus Wars: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference, John Arthur, Amy Shapiro, Westview Press, 1995
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New Student Politics, Sarah Long, Campus Compact, 2001
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Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement, Liza Featherstone, Verso Books, June 2000
• "The Making of a Student Activist", Abby Ellin, The New York Times, November 11, 2001
• "A Student’s Education in the Politics of Protest", David Enders, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 10, 2002
• "Activism Surges at Campus Worldwide, and Labor is at Issue", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, May 29, 1999
• "Student Leadership and Activism for Social Change in the US", David Grande, MD, Sindhu Srinivas, MD, Education for Health, 2001
• "The Making of a Student Activist", Abby Ellin, The New York Times, Nov. 11, 2001
• "How Much Should Colleges Pay Their Janitors? Student Protests Force Administrators to Consider Issues of Social Justice and Practically", Martin Van Der Werf, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3, 2001
• "Student Activism on the Rise in America", Peter Johnson, New Youth, April 19, 1999
• "The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement", Richard Appelbaum, Peter Dreier, The American Prospect, September/October 1999
ANTHOLOGIES —MORE COMPLETE HISTORIES— COMPARITIVE:
• The Campus and A Nation In Crisis: From the American Revolution to Vietnam, Willis Rudy, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996
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Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject, Mark Edelman Boren, 2001
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Student Activism: Town & Gown In Historical Perspective, Alexander Deconde, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971
• "Back To The Barricades", Joshua Zietz, American Heritage 2001
• "Introduction: Students and Politics in Comparative Perspective", Seymour Martin Lipset, from
Students In Revolt.
• "Half a Century of Student Protest", Stephanie Gutmann, The New York Times, Nov. 11, 2001.
• "A Reflection on Race Relations in the Student Christian Movement," Samuel Slie, Journal of Ecumenical Studies 1995 32(4): 525-532.
• "Political Generational Themes in the American Student Movements of the 1930s and 1960s," Richard G. Braungart, Margaret M. Braungart, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 1990
• "In the Shadow of SDS: Writing The History of Twentieth Century College Students," Lynn Gordon, History of Education Quarterly 1986 26(1): 131-139.
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Encyclopedia of Student and Youth Movements, David Burg, Facts on File, 1998.
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Student Politics in America, Philip Altbach, Transaction, 1997.
ORGANIZING HANDBOOKS & GUIDES:
• The Future is Ours: A Handbook For Student Activists in the 21st Century, John W. Bartlett, Henry Holt and Company, 1962.
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A Guide For the Powerless And Those Who Don’t Know Their Own Power: A Primer on the American Political Process, Samuel Halperin, Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, D.C., 1981. (American Youth Policy Forum)
(read an excerpt from this guide: the "Golden Rules of Advocacy")
DOCUMENTARIES:
Harvard Living Wage Video: www.livingwagenow.org
OTHER USEFUL LISTS:
Red House Books Catalog of Campus Protest Reading
www.redhousebooks.com/catalogs/campusProtest.htm
Still Curious? Enter these buzz words into your favorite search engines to find out more!
• Students for a Democratic Society
• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
• South Africa
• Tianemen Square
• China
• Iran Student Movements
• French Student Movements
• Civil Rights Movement
• Students and Feminism