The History of College Protests

As protests ramp up on college campuses throughout the United States, I thought it might be helpful to pull together in one place episodes about the history of college protests and the larger context of the social and political world of the US in the 1960s and 1970s.

College Protests:

• The Jackson State Shootings in May 1970
• The 1968 Student Uprising at Tuskegee Institute
• The Kent State Shootings, 50 Years Later [on Two Broads Talking Politics]
• The Student Right in the late 1960s

Additional Protests/Demonstrations/Riots from the 1960s/1970s:

• The 1966 Division Street Uprising & the Puerto Rican community in Chicago
• The 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot
• The 1972 Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Other episodes about the culture and politics of the late 1960s/early 1970s:

• The Politics of Reproductive Rights in 1960s & 1970s New York
• The 1968 White House Fashion Show
• The National Women's Conference of 1977
• The Southern Strategy
• Racial Conflict in the U.S. Army During the Vietnam War Era
• Shirley Chisholm
• Patsy Mink
• Bert Corona