Research Guides: History: Books/eBooks

eBook Collections

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Student Protests

Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism by Bradley G. Shreve; Shirley Hill Witt (Foreword by)
Call Number: E98.T77 S49 2011
Publication Date: 2014-06-19
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism.
Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965 by James P. Marshall
Call Number: E185.93.M6 M27 2013
ISBN: 9780807149843
Publication Date: 2013-03-11
"In 1960, students supporting civil rights moved into Mississippi and challenged white supremacy by encouraging African Americans to reassert the rights guaranteed them under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The ensuing social upheaval changed the state forever."
The Third World in the Global 1960s by Samantha Christiansen (Editor); Zachary A. Scarlett (Editor)
Call Number: HN19.T43 2015
Publication Date: 2015
This volume inserts the Third World into the study of the 1960s by examining the local and international articulations of youth protest in various geographical, social, and cultural arenas.
Also available in Ebook Central Collection.
Rebellion in Black and White: southern student activism in the 1960s by Robert Cohen (Editor); David J. Snyder (Editor); Dan T. Carter (Foreword by)
Call Number: LA229 .R385 2013
ISBN: 9781421408507
Publication Date: 2013-03-20
"Rebellion in Black and White offers a panoramic view of how southern students promoted desegregation, racial equality, free speech, academic freedom, world peace, gender equity, sexual liberation, Black Power, and the personal freedoms associated with the counterculture of the decade."
Generation at the Crossroads: apathy and action on the American campus by Paul R. Loeb
Call Number: LA229.L62 1994
ISBN: 9780813521442
Publication Date: 1994-09-01
Put Your Bodies upon the Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s by Kenneth J. Heineman
Call Number: LA229.P88 2001
ISBN: 9781566633529
Publication Date: 2002
Traces the revolution's growth from a rebellion against parental control and the Vietnam War to a coercive and sometimes divisive social movement, and examines the protestors, their motives, their critics, and their legacy.
Beyond the Barricades: the sixties generation grows up by Jack Whalen; Richard Flacks
Call Number: LA243.5.W48 1989
ISBN: 0877226067
Publication Date: 1989-06-23
Traces the changes in social and political convictions of a group of student activists at a California university in 1970, through the past twenty years.
Blow It Up! The Black Student Revolt at San Francisco State College and the Emergence of Dr. Hayakawa
Call Number: LD729.C975 K3
Publication Date: 1971
The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s by Robert Cohen (Editor); Reginald E. Zelnik (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook Central Collection
ISBN: 9780520233546
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
The Kumquat Statement: Anarchy in the Groves of Academe by John R. Coyne
Call Number: LD760.C68 1970 (Cañada College Library)
ISBN: 9780402120520
Publication Date: 1970-01-01
At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of An Activist, 1961-1965 by Jo Freeman
Call Number: LD760.F73 2004
ISBN: 9780253216229
Publication Date: 2003-12-24
This book is a memoir and a history of Berkeley in the early Sixties. As a young undergraduate, Jo Freeman was a key participant in the growth of social activism at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Spiral of Conflict: Berkeley, 1964 by Max Heirich
Call Number: LD760.H44
ISBN: 9780231032438
Publication Date: 1973-04-01
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld
Call Number: LD760.R67 2012
ISBN: 9781250033383
Publication Date: 2013-07-23
"A narrative report on the FBI's covert involvement with future President Ronald Reagan, radical Mario Savio and liberal university president Clark Kerr to suppress the 1960s student movement at Berkeley reveals J. Edgar Hoover's campaign of planted news stories, illegal break-ins and other acts designed to undermine the Democratic party."
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham
ISBN: 9780812993189
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
Shut It Down! A College in Crisis: San Francisco State College, October 1968-April 1969; A Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence by William H. Orrick
Publication Date: 1969
Who Will Shout If Not Us? Student Activists and the Tiananmen Square Protest, China, 1989 by Ann Kerns
Call Number: 951.058 KER (Daly City Library)
ISBN: 9780822589716
Publication Date: 2010-01-10