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Youth Activists and Change Makers
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by Robert W. Maloy 2 years, 9 months ago
“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.”
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
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Overview of Youth Activism
Youth Activism in US History
- The Lowell Mill Girls
- Teenage Soldiers in the Civil War
- The March of the Mill Children
- Newsboys Strike of 1899
- Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909
- The American Youth Congress
- Port Chicago Mutiny and the Port Chicago 50
- Mendez v. Westminster
- The Green Feather Movement
- Barbara Rose Johns and the Morton School Strike
- The Little Rock Nine
- The Greensboro Four
- Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
- Birmingham Children's Crusade
- Tinker v. Des Moines
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement
- East LA Walkouts/Chicano Blowouts
- School Girls Unite
- Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
- March for Our Lives
- Juliana v. United States Youth Climate Lawsuit
Individual Activists and Change Makers
- Sacajawea
- Ida B. Wells
- Jim Thorpe
- Louis Braille
- Mary Shelley
- Venetia Burney
- Sophie and Hans Scholl and the White Rose Movement
- DJ Kool Kerc
Overview of Youth Activism
100 Years of Youth-Led Social Activism from the Center for Community Change
Global Nonviolent Action Database
We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Liberties, Library of Congress, 2009
A Teen Scientist's Invention to Help Wounds Heal
- Anushka Naiknaware, age 13 and youngest Google Science Fair winner, designed a sensor that tracks wound healing
10 Ways Youth Can Engage in Activism, Anti-Defamation League
First Amendment Rights for Student Protestors
Youth Activism in United States History
The Bobbin Girl, Winslow Homer
- The Lowell Mill Girls, 1830s
- Young Adult Novel: Lyddie, Katherine Paterson (Puffin Books, 1995)
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Portrait of a Boy Soldier |
- Teenage Soldiers in the Civil War, 1861-1865
- The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War, Jim Murphy (1993)
- The March of the Mill Children, 1903
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"Newsboys," photograph by Lewis W. Hine |
Six Shirtwaist Strike Women
- Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909
- The American Youth Congress, 1934
- Port Chicago Mutiny and the Port Chicago 50, 1944
- Thurgood Marshall was an attorney for the defendants
- President Clinton pardoned the last remaining member of the Port Chicago 50 in 1994
- Mendez v. Westminster, 1947
- Picture Book: Sylvia and Aki, Winifred Conkling (Yearling, 2018)
- Aki, a Japanese American youngster attended the school Sylvia Mendez could not attend until Aki's family was forced into a relocation camp
- Barbara Rose Johns and the Morton School Strike, 1951
- College student resistance against McCarthyism and censorship
- The Little Rock Nine, 1957
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Founded 1960)
- The Birmingham Children's Crusade, 1963
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Mary Beth Tinker and her Mother |
- Tinker v. Des Moines, 1965
- In this case the Supreme Court ruled that school students are persons under the constitution; school officials do not possess absolute authority over their students
- Students for A Democratic Society (SDS), 1960s
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964-1965
- East LA Walkouts/Chicano Blowouts
- School Girls Unite, 2004 to Present
- Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, 2016
- March for Our Lives, 2018
- Juliana v. United States Youth Climate Lawsuit
Individual Activists and Change Makers in United States and World History
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Mural in lobby of Montana House of Representatives |
- Ida B. Wells
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice
- She was 22 years-old in 1884 when she refused to give up her seat to a White man on a railroad train and move to the Jim Crow car.
- She became an activist, journalist and anti-lynching crusader
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U.S. Marshals escorting Ruby Bridges to school, 1960 |
- Sophie and Hans Scholl and The White Rose Movement, 1942-1943
Youth Activists and Change Makers
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