| 书目名称 | Student Activism in 1960s America | | 副标题 | Stories from Queens | | 编辑 | Magnus O. Bassey | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Tells the stories of individual student activists in New York, offering an intimate look into their lives and careers.Argues that Queens College was an important launching pad for the student movement | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book sheds light on the untold stories of individual student activists at Queens College, New York City, during the 1960s. Against the backdrop of the ongoing Vietnam War and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, some Americans began to lose faith in their government. Based on injustices that students saw in their campuses, in the country, and in the world at large, they began to question their political leaders. Students organized their discontents over three major issues: civil rights, free speech, and anti-war sentiments. Their protests involved direct actions such as sit-ins, marches, picketing, and boycotts. At Queens College (QC), as the students moved away from the repressive McCarthy era of the 1950s, they began to confront and challenge those in power at the college in the 1960s. The defining characteristic of this break from the past was a student strike in 1961 in objection to the ban of controversial speakers who had been invited to campus by student clubs. The student strike of 1961 gave the activists among them a direct and immediate way to fight power on campus and to fight racism and discrimination. The author argues that student movements cannot be | | 出版日期 | Book 2024 | | 关键词 | Activism; Boycott; Civil Rights; Protest; Racism; Vietnam War; Anti-war; Social Justice; Student Activism; Qu | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54794-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-54796-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-54794-2Series ISSN 2634-6559 Series E-ISSN 2634-6567 | | issn_series | 2634-6559 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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