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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Student activism"”.
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Black Women and Student Activism at Fayetteville State, 1960-1972
… their experiences as organizers, activists, and students during the Sit-In and Black Campus Movements. I asked the following research questions: (1) In what ways did Black women participate in the Civil Rights/Black Power era activism, specifically the Sit-In and Black Campus Movements, while …
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Whose Streets? Our Streets!: Identity, Institutions, and Privilege in Student Activism
… is a qualitative ethnography of college student activism that examines student activist identity, and the role of social structures and privilege in activism. The study uses data from two years of in-depth fieldwork including over 18 months of participant observation and interviews with …
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Campus battlegrounds: Puerto Rican student activism in higher education and community leadership in Chicago, 1970-1985
This dissertation analyzes the Puerto Rican student struggle in Chicago’s higher education from 1970 to 1985. Throughout this period, Puerto Rican student activists fought to transform a racist higher education system. I argue that higher education served as a training battleground where Puerto …
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Educating for Change: How Leadership Education and Training Affect Student Activism in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Undergraduates
… education and training experiences predicted student activism in lesbian, gay, and bisexual undergraduate students. The impact of these experiences were compared to the impact of participants' involvement and leadership in co-curricular and off-campus organizations to identify the additional …
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The ISS on Campus: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921
<p>"Student activism" is a commonly used-and somewhat loaded-phrase. In the mind of the modern observer, the phrase inspires images of peace signs, love beads, sit-ins, and Kent State. Student activism, however, has not always been true to this imagery. The tradition of student groups devoted to …
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Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College
… scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from …
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Of student unrest and civil rights: a history of the 1960 alabama state college sit-in movement and the demise of in loco parentis
This study discusses the student activism that led to the legal case that established due process rights for students at state-funded colleges and universities. In 1960, Alabama State College students organized a sit-in demonstration against Jim Crow segregation and subsequently challenged their …
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For Alma Mater: Fighting for Change at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
… Black colleges and universities concerning more student autonomy and more alumni involvement. This shift in attitude was primarily due to Black students and alumni who rebelled against the paternalistic White power structure that existed at their schools. At the core of this conflict, stood …
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Aspiring and Doing Activism Under Repressive Systems: A Narrative Inquiry of Former Student Activists
… broadened the causes, alignments, and avenue for students to engage in student organizations and contentious actions. Despite the severity of the state‘s repressive tactics, university students contentious actions have not waned. Not only do students engage in everyday micro resistance, they also …
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Student Radicalism in Tennessee, 1954-1970
This dissertation examines student radicalism in Tennessee between Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in Kent, Ohio in May 1970. As the first statewide study of student activism, and one of the few examinations of …
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Opening German Minds: Drug Users, Social Tolerance, and the Making of West Germany, 1967--1983
… seventies, West German drug users, alongside student activists and terrorists, appeared as profound threats to social order in postwar Germany. Less than two decades later, however, West Germans had come to terms with all three groups. In the process, West Germany transitioned into a far more …
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The Building of a New Left Conglomerate in the City of Ann Arbor: VOICE, the Black Action Movement, and the Human Rights Party (1965-1975)
… Rights Party (HRP), particularly allowed for student activism to become an integral part of the politcal, cultural, and social aspects within Ann Arbor. The emergence of these organizations made a once, conservative, Midwestern college town into a hotbed of radicalism that would help create a …
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The Harrison High School walkouts of 1968: struggle for equal schools and Chicanismo in Chicago
For the most part, high school activism in the Midwest has not been the subject of scholarly research. Moreover, the Chicano Movement in Chicago is a history that at present remains largely unrecorded. This study examines archival evidence such as newspaper articles, intelligence reports, as well …
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Student-worker alliances in the making of a social movement: Narratives and debates of outsourcing in #FeesMustFall
This thesis examines the student-workers alliances, in particular the outsourced workers, during the #FeesMustFall (FMF) movement at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The study reveals how the movement fostered solidarity among students and workers while advocating for transformation within …
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