Title: 20 of the Most Important College Protests and Social Movements - Best Degree Programs
Headings: 20 of the Most Important College Protests and Social Movements
20 of the Most Important College Protests and Social Movements
#1 – The Berkeley Free Speech Movement
University of California at Berkeley
#2 – Morningside Park Protest
Columbia University
#3 – Teach-In Anti-War Social Movement
University of Michigan
#4 – The Student Debt Protest
New York University
#5 – Keystone XL Pipeline Protest
Georgetown University
#6 – Protest Against Insensitivity
Claremont McKenna College
#7 – Sexual Assault Awareness
Columbia University
#8 – The Kent State Protest
Kent State University
#9 – Racism Lives Here Protest
University of Missouri
#10 –Women’s Activism
University of Georgia
#11 – Love Trumps Hate Protests
University of Texas
#12 – The Harvard Strike
Harvard University
#13 – Occupy Wall Street
University of California, Davis
#14 – Ferguson Rallies
St. Louis University
#15 – The Yale Protest Against Racial Insensitivity
Yale University
#16 – Third World Liberation Front Strikes
San Francisco State University
#17 – Hate Speech Protest
Cornell University
#18 – Sanctuary Campus Protest
Syracuse University
#19 – Take Back Our Campus: Resist White Supremacy
University of Wisconsin
#20 – Anti-immigration Protest
Stony Brook University
This concludes our list of the 20 most important college campus protests and social movements in the United States.

Content: This racially charged protest was birthed out of the already aggravated student body regarding Columbia’s research ties to the Vietnam War. In April of 1968, a large crowd of students occupied the campus buildings and demonstrated for approximately one week. Officers showed up with tear gas and approximately 150 students were injured. Over 700 arrests were made, and the recreation center was never built. #3 – Teach-In Anti-War Social Movement
University of Michigan
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To protest American intervention in Vietnam, an anti-war protest broke out at the University of Michigan in March of 1965. The protest was decided to be a “teach-in,” as a way to make a statement yet educate the university’s students. Teachers brought awareness of the Vietnam War to the classrooms and held demonstrations following classes so there was minimal disruption to the university. The teach-in at University of Michigan was the first demonstration of its kind, and after receiving national press, prompted many more teach-ins throughout the country, including those at Rutgers, Columbia, and University of Wisconsin. #4 – The Student Debt Protest
New York University
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In 2013, graduating students at one of the nation’s priciest institutions of higher education–New York University–formed a student debt protest in Washington Square Park. The demonstration was to call on the current president, John Sexton, to do something about the accumulation of debt of his graduating students.