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Oliver, Donald W.; Newmann, Fred M. – 1967
See TE 499 864, above.
Descriptors: Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Colonial History (United States), Demonstrations (Civil)
Afield, Walter E.; Gibson, Audrey B. – 1970
This report draws a clear if disturbing picture of the children of Resurrection City, the nature of their family life, and their behavior under duress in the confusion of Resurrection City. The authors worked with the City's 157 children for four weeks. Also included is a discussion of some of the broader implications of this work by a white child…
Descriptors: Activism, Child Welfare, Civil Disobedience, Day Care
Thomas, Dan; And Others – International Journal of Political Education, 1983
Studies the ways in which citizens rationalize their obedience or disobedience to the law. There is a clear correspondence between cognitive structure, or moral reasoning, and political-legal predispositions. Political involvement is the catalyst which converts moral development into political maturity. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Civil Disobedience, Cognitive Development, Compliance (Legal), Laws
Biggs, Donald A.; Barnhart, William J. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1973
Study results show that most citizens did not consider a week-long campus disturbance to be a legitimate form of social protest and that their attitudes toward campus dissent were related to attitudes toward campus freedom of expression and beliefs about campus life. (Author)
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Disobedience, Community Attitudes, Demonstrations (Civil)
Thomas, Tim – Freedomways, 1973
Relates the present status and problems of Southern University students in manifesting their belief that black colleges should serve the interests of the black community. (DM)
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Attitudes, Black Colleges, Black Power
Green, Edith – Educ Rec, 1970
Chairman of the House Special Subcommittee on Education sees in continued campus disruption the loss of public and private funds that higher education cannot afford. Adapted from address to Higher Education Group of Washington, June 9, 1970. (IR)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Activism, Civil Disobedience, Educational Legislation

Myers, John B. – Journal of Negro Education, 1971
Descriptors: Black History, Civil Disobedience, Educational Demand, Educational Development

Dunseath, Tessa – History of Education, 2002
States Norwegian Nazi leader, Vidkun Quisling, attempted to control dissenting Norwegian teachers by developing a compulsory union. Reports Nazi beliefs centered on controlling teachers, curriculum, and textbooks as a key to success. Notes Norwegian teachers' refusal to comply with the union scheme stymied Norwegian Nazi leaders' plans for…
Descriptors: Civil Disobedience, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Research
Rowland, Della – 1990
This biography for younger readers depicts the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Nobel Peace Prize winner who dedicated himself to the struggle for equal rights for African Americans while embracing the principle of nonviolent resistance. The book presents an overview of the civil rights movement and chronicles King's role as national leader…
Descriptors: Activism, Biographies, Black History, Black Leadership
Sneed, Don; Stonecipher, Harry W. – 1989
The ultimate test of the speech-action dichotomy, as it relates to symbolic speech to be considered by the courts, may be the fasting of prison inmates who use hunger strikes to protest the conditions of their confinement or to make political statements. While hunger strikes have been utilized by prisoners for years as a means of protest, it was…
Descriptors: Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Communication Research, Court Litigation
Denby, Charles, Ed. – 1972
This pamphlet contains quoted viewpoints of minority group members, and aims to bring the philosophy of revolutionary Marxist-Humanism into a direct dialectical relationship with the movement for liberation which is coming from minorities, women, colonial peoples, and the working masses. [One article in this pamphlet, "Los Chicanos" is in…
Descriptors: Activism, American Indians, Black Power, Blacks
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
Chalip, Alice Grace, Ed. – 1972
At this 1972 conference, upper division and graduate students from nine western colleges submitted papers on the theory, history, and criticism of rhetoric. Three of them are published in this conference report, along with the principal address. In "Rhetorical Criticism as Argument," the principal address, Wayne Brockriede suggests that useful…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Disobedience, Civil Liberties, Critical Thinking

Jenkins, J. Craig; Eckert, Craig M. – American Sociological Review, 1986
Critically evaluates the theory of patronage and professional social movement organizations (SMOs) in interpreting the development of black insurgency between 1953 and 1980. Findings support and contradict the social contract theory. Professionalization was only one of many reasons for the movement's decline. (Author/PS)
Descriptors: Activism, Astronomy, Black Organizations, Black Power

Bucher, Richard D. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1986
Differences in students' perceptions of Black militancy were studied both within and between three economically distinctive community colleges. Approximately 200 students from each of three schools completed questionnaires evaluating the legitimacy and effectiveness of protest actions in two hypothetical situations. Significant differences existed…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Power, Civil Disobedience, Community Colleges