... protests advocating social change and increased modernization. The regime attacked Western media portrayals of their country and strictly controlled the global information that reached Chinese citizens. The primary message of propaganda during this period stressed that democracy in China would mean chaos...

... a degree, as well as his role in various campus groups and protests against the Vietnam War. It includes Gatewood's time at the University of Kentucky Law School, and his drafting of the "Model Plan for Legal Marijuana". The chapter introduces Gatewood's then-wife, Susan Sears, and the birth of his first...

... judicial courts violence education protests family The time has come when the head will never bow Wherever the Negro may go A few more years and he’ll show the nation how He will thrive where the sugar canes grow. A few more years and he’ll shift the weary load So that it will ever be light...

...The sit-in protests, launched in Greensboro, NC, in early 1960 and the Freedom Rides of the following year, presented Wilkins with a new paradigm in the fight for freedom as a wave of mass-action protests quickly spread across the South. The founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...

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... protests of the late 1980s—and to the regime’s brutal crackdown in June 1989. This chapter assesses Sino-American relations in the Chinese mind during the 1980s as being characterized by a combination between “aspirational” and “oppositional” elements that together served to promote good relations...

...This chapter notes that it is fitting that in national discourse surrounding police killings and related Black Lives Matter protests, so many reporters and activists have turned to James Baldwin to interpret contemporary racial politics and summon people toward political action. Baldwin, so...

...This chapter examines the role of the University of Kentucky's Black Student Union in the recruitment of Black athletes during the late 1960s. It explores the campus environment, Black protests, attitudes of white administrators towards Black issues, and struggle to desegrated the men's basketball...

...Although a decided majority of southern students were more conservative and less activist than students nationally, a distinct and embattled minority of antiwar dissidents on Dixie’s campuses mounted unprecedented protests. In so doing, they confronted the hostility of their peers, campus...

.... It further notes that there have always been protests against particular death sentences that were believed to be unjust. It provides that in those instances the challenge might have been as to the guilt of the person condemned. Capital punishment Cruel and unusual punishment Eighth Amendment 1791...

... to initiate action protests that would draw national attention. Kennedy Robert King Rev Dr Martin Luther Jr activism Ku Klux Klan KKK Nixon Richard M Abernathy Ralph Congress of Racial Equality CORE education Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC freedom of choice plans Garment Leonard...