Title: 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism - The New York Times
Headings: 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism
7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism
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What Makes #NeverAgain Different?
The protests calling for stricter gun control measures come on the heels of other youth movements, but the momentum they have gained makes them stand out.
Greensboro sit-ins, 1960
University uprisings, 1968
Apartheid divestment, 1970s-80s
Tiananmen Square, 1989
Velvet Revolution, 1989
Iran, 1999
Black Lives Matter, 2013-present

Content: and that disciplinary proceedings against students involved in an earlier protest be dropped. The university agreed to the third and fourth demands. Students at Columbia University used similar tactics a month later, occupying several buildings for a week before 1,000 police officers stormed the campus to evict them. Strikes continued for the rest of the semester, essentially paralyzing the university even after the occupiers were cleared out. The students were protesting two things — the construction of a university gym in Morningside Park in Harlem that would provide only limited access to Harlem residents, and Columbia’s Vietnam-era contract with a weapons research think tank — and Columbia canceled both. On the other side of the Atlantic, students revolted in France and Poland. In Warsaw, protests against government censorship built from 300 students in January to 20,000 in March, but were ultimately suppressed. And in Paris, some 20,000 swarmed the Sorbonne in May, turning cars into barricades and clashing with riot police. French labor unions and teachers joined a 24-hour general strike in support of the students, bringing the nation to a grinding halt but failing to topple President Charles de Gaulle. Image
A rally in Soweto, South Africa, in October 1976 after the funeral of a black student who died in jail.