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National Guardsmen with rifles and fixed bayonets march outside South Carolina State College following the Orangeburg Massacre

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Orangeburg Massacre

All-Star Triangle Bowling Lanes After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, segregation had officially ended in much of the South, but it hadn’t changed the attitudes of some of its white citizens. Many blacks were still persecuted and discriminated against by whites. One such person was Harry Floyd, owner of All-Star Bowling […]

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Velvet Revolution

History of Student Protests

Tiananmen Square On April 18, 1989, after the funeral of communist leader Hu Yaobang, thousands of students marched in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, to protest the oppressive communist government. The protests continued as students called for strikes and class boycotts. A few weeks later, on May 13, students began a hunger strike in Tiananmen […]

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Crowds In Tahrir Square As Mubarak Prepares To Address Egyptians CAIRO, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 10: An anti-government protester is carried on shoulders in Tahrir Square in the afternoon before a speech by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square February 10, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak made a statement saying that he had given some powers to his vice President but would not resign or leave the country, leaving a crowd of anti-government protesters disappointed and furious after early reports he might step down. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Arab Spring

What Is the Arab Spring? The Arab Spring was a loosely related group of protests that ultimately resulted in regime changes in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Not all of the movements, however, could be deemed successful—at least if the end goal was increased democracy and cultural freedom. In fact, for many countries […]

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2017 Events

Politics Trump’s inauguration: After a divisive election season, Donald Trump officially became the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. In a 16-minute inaugural address (the shortest since Jimmy Carter‘s in 1977), Trump repeated his “America First” campaign slogan in which he delivered a dark-toned nationalist, populist message. The slogan “America First” […]

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A Beijing demonstrator blocks the path of a tank convoy along the Avenue of Eternal Peace near Tiananmen Square during protests for freedom of speech and of press from the Chinese government. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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Who Was the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square?

Tank Man, a protester who tried to stop Chinese tanks moving through Tiananmen Square, has never been identified.

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Columbia University Protest, 1968. African American students look down on the balcony of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University during student demonstrations

How Columbia’s Student Uprising of 1968 Was Sparked by a Segregated Gym

The ‘Gym Crow’ controversy became a flashpoint at an already volatile university.

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Demonstrators marching under the Chicago "L" (elevated railroad) during a protest calling for the firing of School Superintendent Benjamin Willis by Mayor Daley over the delays in integrating Chicago schools during the 1960s. (Credit: Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

Why MLK Encouraged 225,000 Chicago Kids to Cut Class in 1963

‘Freedom Day’ didn’t succeed, but it made de facto school segregation the talk of Chicago.

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How Freedom Rider Diane Nash Risked Her Life to Desegregate the South

Now an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Nash was arrested dozens of times for non-violent protests—including while six months pregnant.

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