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Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. In keeping up with their ongoing fight to end gun-violence in all communities, the student leaders of March for Our Lives have decided not to be paid as authors of the book....
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture...
7) When the old left was young: student radicals and America's first mass student movement, 1929-1941
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1993
Description
The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history. The crusade, led in large part by young Communists, was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers. The movement arose from a massive political awakening on campus, caused by the economic crisis of the 1930s and the escalating international tensions and threat of world war wrought...
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Series
Hoover Institution publication volume 144
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
c1975
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Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"CAMPUS UPRISINGS captures the voices and spirit of student activists, faculty, administration, and staff as they protest the racial and social injustices that occurred in communities like Ferguson, Missouri and elsewhere, and to demonstrate the power and value of principled non-violent activism to provoke change"-- Provided by publisher.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that "White supremacist groups are targeting college campuses like...