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Association of Physical Plant Administrators, Corvallis, OR. – 1969
This document presents a symposium of papers concerning campus disorder. Papers are divided into three sections: background, actions, and tools at hand. Articles present the problems facing police officers and their reactions and solutions to campus disturbances. (MJM)
Descriptors: Civil Disobedience, College Students, Demonstrations (Civil), Dissent

Cartwright, Carol A. – Educational Record, 1995
Reviews the history of student activism at American universities from the colonial period to the present, focusing on the 19th-century abolitionist movement and antiwar movements in the 1930s and 1960s. Also discusses student activism at Kent State University (Ohio) and the events of May 4, 1970, when four students were killed in a confrontation…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Disobedience, College Students, Demonstrations (Civil)
Collins, Anne M.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1972
The study examines results of an anonymous poll of student attitudes and participation in demonstrations and riots at the University of Maryland. The poll was administered to 1407 university students and data are presented by means, standard deviations, and factor analysis. Results indicate that students generally feel that demonstrations are…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Disobedience, College Administration, College Faculty
President's Commission on Campus Unrest, Washington, DC. – 1970
This report examines campus unrest. Emphasis is placed on the student protest in the 1960's, the black student movement, university response to campus disorder, the law enforcement response, university reform, government and campus unrest, and Kent State and Jackson State. Recommendations are suggested for the President, the government, the law…
Descriptors: Activism, Campuses, Civil Disobedience, College Students

Johnson, Troy R. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1996
Traces the foundations and development of Native American activism, 1950s-90s. Discusses relocation of reservation American Indians to urban areas in the 1950s without promised aid or vocational training, changing aspirations of Indian veterans and college students, lessons of the civil rights movement, occupations of Alcatraz Island and Wounded…
Descriptors: Activism, American Indian History, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights
Dunlap, Riley E.; Peck, Dennis L. – 1974
This bibliography organizes the empirical research literature concerning student activism that was produced in the decade following the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. It is organized into eight sections. Section 1 focuses on studies of "radical" (leftist, antiestablishment) activists while Section 2 focuses on conservative student activists and…
Descriptors: Activism, Behavioral Science Research, Bibliographies, Civil Disobedience