Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Who Won? Student Protest and Politics of Campus Dissent
Explore American college students' political views, convictions, and concerns in the midst of the war in Vietnam through several articles, images, further reading, and writing assignments. Student protests on campuses across the nation...
University of Michigan
Bentley Historical Library: A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at Michigan
Information and analysis on the student-led resistance to the war in Vietnam at the University of Michigan.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Students for a Democratic Society
Primary source documents and texts related to the Students For a Democratic Society movement, a student protest group in the 1960s. All materials can be downloaded.
BBC
Bbc: Mass Student Protests in Colombia
This article discusses the mass protests occurring in Colombia concerning the policies of President Juan Manuel Santos. (April 7, 2011)
New York University
Sds: Students for a Democratic Society
Resource offers annotated explanation of a number of university student protest organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society and its chapter at New York University in 1965.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Port Huron Statement: Students for a Democratic Society
The text of the Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: The Umbrella Movement: Protests in Hong Kong
Learning module uses multi-media sources to teach about the relationship between China and Hong Kong. Students use primary source material to analyze the recent protests in Hong Kong and explore the symbols and messages that protesters...
Bill of Rights Institute
Bill of Rights Institute: Occupy Protests and the Bill of Rights
A lesson plan and extension activities focused on the Occupy Protests which began in 2011. Students will explore the goal of the protests in relationship to the Bill of Rights.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Revolution '67, Lesson 1: Protest: Why and How
In this lesson plan, students examine the reasons for protests by reading about the riots in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967. By using primary source documents, learn historical reasons for protesting and compare them with the situation in...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Student Activism
A good look at the student activism of the Students for a Democratic Society and the philosophy behind this organization.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Music: A Vehicle for Wartime Protest
In this lesson, students will examine music during wartime protests. Students will analyze a wartime protest song and present it to the class. Includes a PowerPoint presentation discussing music as a primary source and links to help...
University of North Carolina
Unc University Library: "I Raised My Hand to Volunteer"
This online exhibit contains digitized documents, images, and other archival materials relating to 1960s student protests in Chapel Hill, N.C. The exhibit is divided into four parts, relating to four different periods of protest in 1960s...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: African American Protest Poetry
Learn about African American protest poetry and what was motivating it. This article takes a look at protest poetry during slavery, during the period of segregation and Jim Crow, and after political obstacles to equality were removed....
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaboration of Sites, Sounds: Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
This instructional activity makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: 'Red Shirts' Spill 60 Gallons of Blood to Protest Thai Government
Political unrest in Thailand took a bloody turn as protesters dumped gallons of blood into their prime minister's compound as a protest against the class system and corruption. Additional details are included in the web article.Resource...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonviolent Resistance and Indian Independence
This is a lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on Mohondas Gandhi and his nonviolent resistance against British rule of India. It features links to Gandhi's biography, his ejection from a train in...
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Teaching With the News: Protests, Revolutions, and Democratic Change
Third in a series of lessons on North Africa and the Middle East in which students survey the current political situation, consider the role of the international community and identify the political geography of the region. Multi-media...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Students "Sit" for Civil Rights
Read the book, "Freedom on the Menu" about the Greensboro Sit-Ins and use the background information and follow up activities provided to enhance the story.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Fifty Years After the March on Washington
Comprehensive resources on the civil rights movement allows students to broaden their understanding through video and primary source material as they analyze the motivation and experience of students who joined the movement and consider...
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Vietnam War Protests
A timeline highlighting the protests between 1964 and 1972 against the Vietnam War, many involving students at universities.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Social Protests
Article with questions for writing and discussion on the social protests of the Civil Rights Movement. Students analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various strategies used during the 50s and 60s to challenge segregation and improve...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Turmoil in China; In Shanghai, Protesters Turn Defiant
A learning module that begins with "Turmoil in China; In Shanghai, Protesters Turn Defiant" by Richard Bernstein, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
Other
Trade Summit Protesters Battle in Quebec City 2001
An American left-wing website reports on the protesters in Quebec City in 2001 that accompanied the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Summit hosted by Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Offers students a glimpse at the wide variety...
Other
The Heritage Foundation: Dr. Wang Dan, Student Leader in Tiananmen Square
Thoughts of Wang Dan, primary dissident in the Tiananmen Square protests, on China during the time of the protests and China in current times. June 2, 2009