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What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest?
From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.
by
Adam Gopnik
via
The New Yorker
on
November 18, 2024
A New Look at the Feminist Earthquake
How women's liberation transformed America and why our understanding of 1963-1973 needs to include more voices.
by
Sara Bhatia
via
Washington Monthly
on
August 25, 2024
How Activists Across the Pacific Northwest Planned the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
Looking back on the environmentalist and anti-globalization movements of the 1990s.
by
D. W. Gibson
via
Literary Hub
on
June 21, 2024
The Forgotten Lessons of Truly Effective Protest
Organizing is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength.
by
Astra Taylor
,
Leah Hunt-Hendrix
via
The Guardian
on
March 14, 2024
The 1978 Equal Rights Amendment March
On a broiling summer afternoon in 1978, the Women's Movement held what was then known as the largest parade for feminism in history.
by
Henry Kokkeler
via
Boundary Stones
on
April 13, 2022
How Protest Moves From the Streets Into the Statehouse
In The Loud Minority, Daniel Gillion examines the relationship between electoral politics and protest movements.
by
Erin Pineda
via
The Nation
on
November 13, 2021
Black Protesters Have Been Rallying Against Confederate Statues for Generations
When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument.
by
Karen L. Cox
via
Smithsonian
on
April 12, 2021
The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s
Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.
by
Samuel Farber
via
Jacobin
on
June 29, 2020
Hip-hop Is the Soundtrack to Black Lives Matter Protests
Songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues.
by
Tyina Steptoe
via
The Conversation
on
June 25, 2020
This Land Is Whose Land? Indian Country and the Shortcomings of Settler Protest
As a Native person, I believe “This Land Is Your Land” falls flat.
by
Mali Obomsawin
via
Folklife
on
June 14, 2019
Neuro-Psychiatry and Patient Protest in First World War American Hospitals
Though their wishes were often overshadowed, soldier-patients had voices.
by
Evan P. Sullivan
via
Nursing Clio
on
November 7, 2018
A Century of American Protest
A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years.
by
Eric Maierson
via
The New Yorker
on
November 5, 2018
When the Klan Came to Town
History reminds us that firm and sometimes violent opposition to racists is a time-honored American tradition.
by
Michael McCanne
via
Boston Review
on
October 23, 2018
Aquarius Rising
Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.
by
Jackson Lears
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 6, 2018
How Centuries of Protest Shaped New York City
A new book traces the “citymaking process” of riots and rebellions since the era of Dutch colonization to the present.
by
Don Mitchell
,
Mimi Kirk
via
CityLab
on
May 24, 2018
A Most Violent Year
The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.
by
Alan Wolfe
via
The New Republic
on
May 18, 2018
The New Orleans Streetcar Protests of 1867
The lesser-known beginning of the desegregation of public transportation.
by
John Bardes
via
We're History
on
April 28, 2018
How 'Deaf President Now' Changed America
A brief history of the movement that transformed a university and helped catalyze the Americans With Disabilities Act.
by
David M. Perry
via
Pacific Standard
on
April 11, 2018
Why Take Student Protests Seriously? Look at Linda Brown
Her death is a useful reminder that students have often served on the political front lines.
by
Joshua Zeitz
via
Politico Magazine
on
April 1, 2018
What Gun-Control Activists Can Learn From the Civil-Rights Movement
The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.
by
Julian E. Zelizer
via
The Atlantic
on
March 23, 2018
'They Were Assumed to Be Puppets of Martin Luther King Jr.'
For decades, we’ve been replaying the same absurd partisan debate over whether to take high school activism seriously.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
February 22, 2018
The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks
On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
,
Jeremy Scahill
via
The Intercept
on
October 8, 2017
Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation.
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
via
The Atlantic
on
October 3, 2017
How the National Anthem Got Tangled Up With American Sports
Like most relationships, it’s complicated.
by
Tevi Troy
via
Politico Magazine
on
September 26, 2017
Laundered Violence
Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.
by
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
via
n+1
on
August 23, 2017
Heather Heyer Is Part of a Long Tradition of White Anti-Racism Activists
Like the abolitionists of yesteryear, white Americans who oppose racial oppression deserve to be remembered and emulated.
by
Manisha Sinha
via
Washington Post
on
August 19, 2017
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When White Supremacists Strike, Police Don’t Always Strike Back
The long history of law enforcement's complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.
by
Dan Berger
via
Made By History
on
August 18, 2017
A Confederate Statue Is Gone, But the Fight Remains in Durham
The city isn't rushing to put it back up.
by
Nash Jenkins
via
TIME
on
August 15, 2017
Hell No, He Must Go!
What anti-Trump protesters can learn from the successes, and mistakes, of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
by
David Kieran
via
Slate
on
February 7, 2017
Black Lives Matter and America’s Long History of Resisting Civil Rights Protesters
The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.
by
Elahe Izadi
via
Washington Post
on
April 19, 2016
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