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Student Movements
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 1968 Revisited... 
 Explores how New York University (NYU) in the 1960s "was an important site of student radicalism," producing the "revolutionary protest groups SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), the Peace and Freedom Party, and the Independent Radicals." Includes a timeline of NYU and international events (1965-1971), and information on related people and organizations. From the NYU Archives. http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/arch/Homepg/Index.html Topics: Activism, Society & Social Science Last updated Oct 8, 2002 A Chronology of "May '68"
Principal dates and events related to the student protests in France in May 1968, during which Sorbonne students were involved in riots in the Latin Quarter in Paris, and which included strikes throughout France. From Metropole Paris, "a weekly online magazine about Paris." http://www.metropoleparis.com/1998/318/chron318.html Topics: Activism, History By Place Last updated Mar 21, 2006 Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
A collection of searchable text documents, including leaflets, letters, statements, speeches, press releases, memoranda, reports, legal documents, trial transcripts, newspaper and journal articles, newsletters, oral histories, books, pamphlets, reports and studies, minutes of meetings, and related government documents. The site also includes a chronology (1964-1965), a searchable database of material from other protest collections, and video and audio files. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/ Topics: Activism, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties Last updated Sep 18, 2004 Freedom of Information Act: Kent State University
Over a thousand pages of digitized documents pertaining to the "violent events at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio" during the May 4, 1970, student demonstrations against the Vietnam War. From the Freedom of Information Act site, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/kentstat.htm Topics: Activism, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Apr 30, 2007 The May Events Archive
This online archive "documents this exciting historical moment with original leaflets, magazines, and newspapers" from 1968, "the climactic year of New Left protest all over the Western world, and especially in [Paris] France where in May of that year ten million workers transformed a student protest into a revolutionary movement by joining it in the streets." Search, or browse by type of material or author. Documents are in French. Simon Fraser University Library, Canada. http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/mai68/ Topics: Activism, History By Place Last updated Apr 29, 2008 The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Anti-Vietnam War Protests in the San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond
A chronology of the Vietnam War (1960-1975), highlighting major events and associated political activism, with an emphasis on the UC Berkeley campus. Contains audio and video of protests, debates, and interviews; photographs; and links to related resources. Also features a chronology of notable post-war events. Includes a bibliography. Note: newspaper articles available only to the UC Berkeley community. From the Media Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet.html Topics: Activism, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Sep 18, 2006 Paris, May '68: Icôns de la Révolution/Icons of the Revolution
Images of approximately twenty posters from the student protests and related strikes in France in the spring of 1968. Includes translations of poster text. From the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto. http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/posters/ Topics: Activism, History By Place Last updated Mar 22, 2006 Q & A: French Labor Law Row
Background about the cause of the March 2006 student protests in France. The article explains that the students demonstrated against "the law creating the First Employment Contract (Contrat Premiere Embauche or CPE) ... which will come into effect in April [2006]. The CPE is new work contract for under-26s with a two-year trial period." Includes links to related news articles, which, in turn, link to primary material in French. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4816306.stm Topics: Activism, Labor Last updated Mar 21, 2006 Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
"This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period." Includes an excerpt from the book "Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle." Browsable by subject; searchable by subject heading or keyword. From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections. http://content.lib.washington.edu/protestsweb/index.html Topics: Activism, Nonfiction by Genre, Society & Social Science, Technology Last updated Jan 10, 2005 The Weather Underground
Companion website to this PBS Independent Lens documentary about the Weather Underground (Weathermen), "one of America's most notorious radical movements" during the Vietnam War. Features background about the group and its actions (including "bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and finally evading the FBI by going into hiding"), an interview with Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, and related material. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/ Topics: Activism, Political Parties & Theories Last updated Apr 24, 2008 Weather Underground Organization (Weathermen)
More than 400 pages of a summary prepared in 1976 "which described the activities of the Weather Underground Organization, also known as Weathermen. This organization described itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women." Document is divided into six downloadable files. From the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) website. http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/weather.htm Topics: Activism, Political Parties & Theories Last updated Apr 30, 2008 |
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