student protests

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/3/2022
  

  The 1968 Tuskegee Student Uprising and the Moral Force of the Black University

  by Brian Jones

  "In a moment when Black studies and Black history are widely under attack, it can be useful to remember that Black student activists have historically been at the center of fights to democratize higher education and expand the curriculum."

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• SOURCE: Quillette
  6/25/19
  

  The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On

  by Tony Fels

  On April 20, 1969, an era of student rebellions that had rocked American campuses at Berkeley, Columbia, San Francisco State, and Harvard reached a culmination of sorts at Cornell. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/29/19
  

  Xi Praises a Student Protest in China. From 100 Years Ago.

  The May 4, 1919, protest against Western colonialism had inflamed Chinese nationalism and helped spread a wave of ideas rejecting Chinese tradition and hierarchy.

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• SOURCE: Open Democracy
  1-11-16
  

  Are students pampered louts?

  by Jim Sleeper and Rosemary Bechler

  Jim Sleeper puts the student protests in historical perspective.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  11-30-15
  

  Student protesters more akin to Puritans

  by Niall Ferguson

  "Are the protesters “little Robespierres,” thirsting to tear up the constitutional guarantee of free speech? Are they pathetic products of lifelong mollycoddling, who just can’t cope with challenging ideas?"

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• 11-18-15
  

  What the Media Missed: The Missouri Student Revolt in Historical Perspective

  by Robert Cohen

  What happened there could become a model for students around the country.