Reveal Digital’s Student Activism collection aims to provide access to unique, yet essential, primary sources documenting the deep and broad history of student organizing in the United States.
Topics and events intended for inclusion:
* Anti-apartheid divestiture
* Student involvement in the civil rights movement
* History of Students for a Democratic Society, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Young Americans for Freedom
* Columbia University student strike of 1968
* East L.A. student blowout
* Free speech movement
* Indians of All Tribes’ occupation of Alcatraz
* Take-Back-the-Night anti-sexual assault activism
* Vietnam War opposition and demilitarization activism
* Women’s rights
* LGBTQ+ rights
* Orangeburg massacre
* Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel
* Gulf War and Iraq war opposition
* Battle in Seattle (WTO action)