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5/14/2023
How a Little-Known Anti-Vietnam Protest Reverberates Today
by Gary B. Ostrower
A 1968 disruption of an ROTC ceremony at Alfred University in 1968 involved just 15 students and 2 faculty. It won't be remembered with Berkeley or Columbia in the annals of student protest, but it made a significant impact on the legal requirements placed on universities' policies for dealing with student protest.
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SOURCE: University of Mississippi
1/18/2022
University of Mississippi Makes Available Oral Histories of Student Protesters Sent to Parchman Prison Farm
Historian Garrett Felber and his students began a project to document the experiences of Mississippi students arrested in 1970 and sent to the notorious prison farm.
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SOURCE: Portside
4/27/2020
Fifty Years Ago This Spring: Millions of Students Struck To End a War in Vietnam
by Steve Early
1970 Student Strike participant Steve Early reflects on the massive college student walkouts and their relevance to today's political climate.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
1/15/19
The Radical Tradition of Student Protest
by Mike Jirik
The student protests against anti-black racism at UNC Chapel Hill are part of a long history of student protest against racism that includes individuals like John Brown Russwurm.
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