Beschreibung:
Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics. Students were active in the anti-slavery movement; they rebelled against military service in the Civil War; they staged demonstrations during the Depression; and they were vocal during the 1960s. While activism has subsided somewhat in the past three decades, students continue to be involved in significant political issues. Student Politics in America is the first book to chronicle the entire history of student political activism in America, dealing not only with the periods when students were dramatically involved in politics, but also focusing on less active periods.
One: Introduction; Two: The Stirrings of Student Activism: 1900-1930; Three: The Thirties: A Movement Comes of Age; Four: The Postwar Years: Liberal Currents Amidst Apathy; Five: Radicals and Others in the Fifties: In and Out of the Wilderness; Six: The Revival of Student Activism: The Late Fifties; Seven: Continuity and Change: The New Left in the Context of American Student Activism